The RTE class of non-LTR retrotransposons is widely distributed in animals and is the origin of many SINEs

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1123-1134

  Malik, Harmit S ^a   Eickbush, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AP endonuclease; Art2; BDDF; Caenorhabditis elegans; Reverse transcriptase; RTE1

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INSECT; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SNAKE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WORM;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BOVINAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; OVIS ARIES; PLATYHELMINTHES; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA; VIPER;

EID: 0031857142     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026020     Document Type: Article

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