The unusual phylogenetic distribution of retrotransposons: A hypothesis

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1975-1983

  Boeke, Jef D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0141742359     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1392003     Document Type: Review

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