TAHRE, a novel telomeric retrotransposon from Drosophila melanogaster, reveals the origin of Drosophila telomeres

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1620-1624

  Abad, José P ^a   De Pablos, Beatriz ^a   Osoegawa, Kazutoyo ^b   De Jong, Pieter J ^b   Martín Gallardo, Antonia ^a   Villasante, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Telomeres; Telomeric retrotransposons

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; TELOMERE ASSOCIATED AND HET A RELATED ELEMENT; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; TELOMERE;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 4143094720     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh180     Document Type: Article

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