A novel family of tRNA-derived SINEs in the colugo and two new retrotransposable markers separating dermopterans from primates

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 341-349

  Schmitz, Jürgen ^a   Zischler, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colugo; Cynocephalus variegatus; FLAM; L1; tRNA derived SINEs

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOIDEA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CYNOCEPHALIDAE; CYNOCEPHALUS; CYNOCEPHALUS VARIEGATUS; DERMOPTERA; EUTHERIA; HOMO; LEMUR; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

PRIMER DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS;

EID: 0141721394     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00060-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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