Ty3/Gypsy retrotransposons: Description of new Arabidopsis thaliana elements and evolutionary perspectives derived from comparative genomic data

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1040-1049

  Marín, Ignacio ^a   Lloréns, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Drosophila; Evolution; Genome sequencing; Gypsy

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; MELANOGASTER; METAVIRIDAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0343090765     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026385     Document Type: Article

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