Non-LTR retrotransposons (LINEs) as ubiquitous components of plant genomes

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-79

  Noma, K ^a   Ohtsubo, E ^a   Ohtsubo, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

LINEs Endonuclease gene; Non LTR retrotransposons; Phylogeny; Plant kingdom

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; GYMNOSPERM; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RICE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA, PLANT; ENDONUCLEASES; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032982180     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050943     Document Type: Article

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