PIF-like transposons are common in Drosophila and have been repeatedly domesticated to generate new host genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1872-1888

  Casola, Claudio ^a   Lawing, A Michelle ^a   Betrán, Esther ^a   Feschotte, Cédric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Horizontal transfer; MADF domain; PIF superfamily; Transposase; Transposon domestication

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MYB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; P INSTABILITY FACTOR; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 34547785046     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm116     Document Type: Article

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