Sauria SINEs: Novel short interspersed retroposable elements that are widespread in reptile genomes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 630-644

  Piskurek, Oliver ^a   Austin, Christopher C ^b   Okada, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bov B LINE; Lizards; Sauria SINE; Snakes; Squamata genome evolution; tRNA; Varanus

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENOME; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPTILE; RETROPOSON; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; LIZARDS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; SNAKES;

MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SAURIA; SERPENTES; SPHENODONTIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33745639951     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0201-5     Document Type: Article

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