Lineage-specific tandem repeats riding on a transposable element of MITE in Xenopus evolution: A new mechanism for creating simple sequence repeats

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 738-746

  Hikosaka, Akira ^a   Kawahara, Akira ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MITE; Repetitive DNA; Tandem duplication; Transposition; Xenopus evolution; Xmix; Xstir

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS;

ACARI; XENOPUS BOREALIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 11944257757     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-2664-1     Document Type: Article

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