Long-term inheritance of the 28S rDNA-specific retrotransposon R2

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2157-2165

  Kojima, Kenji K ^a,b   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolution; Non LTR retrotransposons; R2; Ribosomal RNA; Sequence specificity; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; DATA BASE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HAGFISH; LILY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; RETROPOSON; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TURTLE; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECHINODERMATA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; HAGFISHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURTLES; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHORDATA; HAGFISH; MAUREMYS REEVESII; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TANICHTHYS ALBONUBES;

EID: 26444555977     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi210     Document Type: Article

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