Characterization of a retrotransposon-like element from Entamoeba histolytica

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-53

  Sharma, Rachna ^a   Bagchi, Anindya ^a   Bhattacharya, Alok ^a   Bhattacharya, Sudha ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Entamoeba histolytica; Non long terminal repeat; Retrotransposons; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE SEQUENCE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE DOSAGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TELOMERE;

ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034884407     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00300-0     Document Type: Article

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