Evolution of endogenous retrovirus-like elements of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and its relatives

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 840-847

  Greenwood, A D ^a   Lee, F ^a   Capelli, C ^a   DeSalle, R ^a   Tikhonov, A ^a   Marx, P A ^a   MacPhee, R D E ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Elephant; Endogenous retrovirus; Evolution; Mammoth; Microsatellite

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELEPHANT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SELECTION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; HUMAN SPUMARETROVIRUS; MAMMALIA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; PRIMATES; PROCAVIIDAE; RODENTIA; SIRENIA; UNGULATA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0035040939     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003865     Document Type: Article

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