A novel family of short interspersed repetitive elements (SINEs) from cichlids: The patterns of insertion of SINEs at orthologous loci support the proposed monophyly of four major groups of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 391-407

  Takahashi, Kazuhiko ^a   Terai, Yohey ^a   Nishida, Mutsumi ^b   Okada, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Hyiogeny; Lake Tanganyika; Retroposon; Short interspersed repetitive element (SINE)

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH; GENOME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0031955141     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025936     Document Type: Article

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