Multiple LTR-retrotransposon families in the asexual yeast Candida albicans

Genome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 174-191

  Goodwin, Timothy J D ^a   Poulter, Russell T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; RETROELEMENTS; TELOMERE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034100186     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.10.2.174     Document Type: Article

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