Evidence that a family of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) from the Arabidopsis thaliana genome has arisen from a pogo- like DNA transposon

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 730-737

  Feschotte, Cédric ^a   Mouchès, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; DNA transposon; Evolution; Miniature inverted repeat transposable element (MITE); Pogo; Tcl mariner superfamily

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; MINIATURE INVERTED REPEAT TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0034022932     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026351     Document Type: Article

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