A retrotransposon family from the pufferfish (fugu) Fugu rubripes

Gene

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 241-249

  Poulter, Russell ^a   Butler, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gypsy; Retrovirus; Ty3; Vertebrate retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; PROTEINASE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CLADOSPORIUM; FISH; FUNGUS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FISHES, POISONOUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; FUNGI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032581710     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00296-0     Document Type: Article

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