The Sinbad retrotransposon from the genome of the human blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni, and the distribution of related Pao-like elements

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Copeland, Claudia S ^a   Mann, Victoria H ^a   Morales, Maria E ^a   Kalinna, Bernd H ^b   Brindley, Paul J ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; CHORDATA; DANIO RERIO; DEUTEROSTOMIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; ECDYSOZOA; ECHINODERMATA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; INSECTA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; NEMATODA; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; TREMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; RETROPOSON; RNA; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENSITOMETRY; DROSOPHILA; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DENSITOMETRY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETROELEMENTS; RNA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 17544371085     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-20     Document Type: Article

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