A New Group of Tyrosine Recombinase-Encoding Retrotransposons

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 746-759

  Goodwin, Timothy J D ^a   Poulter, Russell T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

DIRS; Ngaro; Retrotransposon; Tyrosine recombinase

Indexed keywords

DNA; RECOMBINASE; RNA; TYROSINE; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNGUS; INTERNAL COMPLEMENTARY REGION; INVERTED TERMINAL REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINASES; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TYROSINE; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 1842609646     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh072     Document Type: Article

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