Multiple lineages of R1 retrotransposable elements can coexist in the rDNA loci of Drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 235-245

  Gentile, Karen L ^a,b   Burke, William D ^a   Eickbush, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal transfers; Nucleotide substitution rates; Retrotransposons; rRNA genes; Vertical transfers

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; DROSOPHILA; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA OBSCURA; DROSOPHILA QUINARIA; DROSOPHILA REPLETA; DROSOPHILA TESTACEA; MELANOGASTER; TESTACEALOBOSIA;

EID: 0035141595     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003797     Document Type: Article

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