Intra- and inter-specific diversity of Tc3-like transposons in nematodes and insects and implications for their evolution and transposition

Gene

Volumn 282, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 133-142

  Tu, Zhijian ^a   Shao, Hongguang ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis briggsae; Caenorhabditis elegans; Drosophila melanogaster; Genetics; Inverted repeat; Molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INVERTED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPOSASES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; NEMATODA; TRANSPOSONS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037045413     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00841-1     Document Type: Article

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