Non-LTR Retrotransposons in the African Malaria Mosquito, Anopheles gambiae: Unprecedented Diversity and Evidence of Recent Activity

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1811-1825

  Biedler, Jim ^a   Tu, Zhijian ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Genome; Molecular evolution; Non LTR retrotransposon; Polyadenylation; Retrotransposition; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

GAG LIKE PROTEIN; GAG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALARIA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NON LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROPOSON; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0242666320     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg189     Document Type: Article

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