Genomic analysis of Drosophila melanogaster telomeres: Full-length copies of HeT-A and TART elements at telomeres

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1613-1619

  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

GENOMIC DNA; TELOMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HET A ELEMENT; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TART ELEMENT; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 4143125425     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh174     Document Type: Article

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