MosquI, a novel family of mosquito retrotransposons distantly related to the Drosophila I factors, may consist of elements of more than one origin

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1675-1686

  Tu, Zhijian ^a   Hill, Jennifer J ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aeries aegypti; Drosophila; Evolution; I factor; Non LTR; Retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 0032708964     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026081     Document Type: Article

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