Organization of the bovine α2-fucosyltransferase gene cluster suggests that the Sec1 gene might have been shaped through a nonautonomous l1-retrotransposition event within the same locus

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2083-2091

  Saunier, Katiana ^a,b   Barreaud, Jean Pierre ^a   Eggen, André ^b   Oriol, Rafael ^c   Levéziel, Hubert ^a,b   Julien, Raymond ^a   Petit, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Gene cluster; Mammalian; Pseudogene; Retrotransposition; 2 Fucosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN SEC1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CATARRHINI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034748430     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003749     Document Type: Article

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