Characterization of SR3 reveals abundance of non-LTR retrotransposons of the RTE clade in the genome of the human blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni

BMC Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Laha, Thewarach ^a   Kaewkrai, Nonglack ^a   Loukas, Alex ^b   Brindley, Paul J ^c  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; HELMINTH DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LARVA; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSGENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, HELMINTH; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETROELEMENTS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSGENES;

EID: 27844455605     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-6-154     Document Type: Article

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