The first non-LTR retrotransposon characterised in the cephalochordate amphioxus, BfCR1, shows similarities to CR1-like elements

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 803-809

  Albalat, R ^a   Permanyer, J ^a   Canestro C ^a,b   Martinez Mir A ^a,c   Gonzalez Angulo O ^a   Gonzalez Duarte R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Chordate; CR1 like retrotransposon; Genome evolution; Horizontal transmission; Mobile element

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BFCR1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AMPHIOXUS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL LINEAGE; CEPHALOCHORDATA; CHORDATA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HAPLOIDY; INVERTEBRATE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MONOPHYLY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RETROPOSON; TANDEM REPEAT; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CEPHALOCHORDATA; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037688034     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-003-2329-z     Document Type: Article

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