Retrotransposon-gene associations are widespread among D. melanogaster populations

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1323-1331

  Franchini, Lucia F ^a   Ganko, Eric W ^a   McDonald, John F ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Genome evolution; Long terminal repeats; Retrotransposons; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NATURAL POPULATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 3042686119     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh116     Document Type: Article

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