Evolution of the Xenopus piggyBac transposon family TxpB: Domesticated and untamed strategies of transposon subfamilies

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2648-2656

  Hikosaka, Akira ^a   Kobayashi, Toshihiro ^a   Saito, Yumiko ^a   Kawahara, Akira ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Molecular domestication; PiggyBac; Transposase; Transposon; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; TRANSPOSON; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSASES; XENOPUS;

XENOPUS BOREALIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 37549067404     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm191     Document Type: Article

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