A search for reverse transcriptase-coding sequences reveals new non-LTR retrotransposons in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster

Genome Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2000, Pages

  Berezikov, Eugene ^a   Bucheton, Alain ^b   Busseau, Isabelle ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Defective Element; Pericentromeric Heterochromatin; Reverse Transcriptase Domain; Reverse Transcriptase Sequence; Target Site Duplication

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0034569450     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2000-1-6-research0012     Document Type: Article

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