Gypsy-like retrotransposons are widespread in the plant kingdom

Plant Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 699-705

  Suoniemi, Annu ^a   Tanskanen, Jaakko ^a   Schulman, Alan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT GENOME; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0032033103     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00071.x     Document Type: Article

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