Monophyletic origin of Alu elements in primates

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 172-182

  Ziȩtkiewicz, Ewa ^a   Richer, Chantal ^a   Sinnett, Daniel ^a   Labuda, Damian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alu evolution; Alu RNA folding; Genomic repeats; Primate lineages; Prosimians; Retroposition; Short interspersed sequence elements (SINES)

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; RNA STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031826943     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006374     Document Type: Article

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