Transposable elements and genome organization: A comprehensive survey of retrotransposons revealed by the complete Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome sequence

Genome Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 464-478

  Kim, Jin M ^a   Vanguri, Swathi ^b   Boeke, Jef D ^c   Gabriel, Abram ^b   Voytas, Daniel F ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSPOSON;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031832807     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.8.5.464     Document Type: Article

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