The age and evolution of non-LTR retrotransposable elements

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 793-805

  Malik, Harmit S ^b   Burke, William D ^b   Eickbush, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

AP endonuclease; Nucleotide divergence rates; Retrotransposons; Reverse transcriptase; RNase H

Indexed keywords

DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ARTHROPODA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032976398     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026164     Document Type: Article

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