LINEs and SINE-like elements of the protist Entamoeba histolytica

Gene

Volumn 297, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 229-239

  Van Dellen, Katrina ^a   Field, Jessica ^a   Wang, Zheng ^b   Loftus, Brendan ^b   Samuelson, John ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Long interspersed repeat; Non long terminal repeat retrotransposon; R4; Repetitive DNA; Restriction enzyme like endonuclease; Reverse transcriptase; Short interspersed repeat

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECT; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTOZOON; RETROPOSON; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; INSECTS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; VERTEBRATES;

ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037019824     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00917-4     Document Type: Article

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