Divergent non-LTR retrotransposon lineages from the genomes of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones)

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 275, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 288-296

  Glushkov, Sergei ^a   Novikova, Olga ^a   Blinov, Alexander ^a   Fet, Victor ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degenerate PCR primers; Non LTR retrotransposons; Retrotransposons; Scorpions

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CR1 GENE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENUS; I CLADE GENE; JOCKEY GENE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R1 GENE; RETROPOSON; SCORPION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROELEMENTS; SCORPIONS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ARACHNIDA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 33644821009     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-0079-3     Document Type: Article

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