A LINE element from the pufferfish (fugu) Fugu rubripes which shows similarity to the CR1 family of non-LTR retrotransposons

Gene

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 169-179

  Poulter, Russell ^a   Butler, Margaret ^a   Ormandy, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CR1; Non LTR retrotransposon; Vertebrate retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; FISH; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FISH PROTEINS; FISHES; GENE DOSAGE; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZINC FINGERS;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PLATEMYS SPIXII; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TESTUDINES; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033580249     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00600-3     Document Type: Article

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