Ticks have R2 retrotransposons but not the consensus transposon target site of other arthropods

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 465-474

  Bunikis, J ^a,b   Barbour, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argasidae; Ixodidae; Mites; Reverse transcriptase; Ribosomal RNA; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ARGASIDAE; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; IXODIDA; PARASITIFORMES;

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MITE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MITES; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TICKS;

EID: 27744438186     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2005.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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