The origin and evolution of mosquito APE retroposons

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2190-2197

  Crainey, James L ^a   Garvey, Clare F ^a   Malcolm, Colin A ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Horizontal transfer; LINEs; Mosquitoes; Non LTR retrotransposons; Retroposons; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULICIDAE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 26444525781     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi217     Document Type: Article

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