A novel SINE family occurs frequently in both genomic DNA and transcribed sequences in ixodid ticks of the arthropod sub-phylum Chelicerata

Gene

Volumn 415, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 13-22

  Sunter, Jack D ^a   Patel, Sonal P ^a   Skilton, Robert A ^a,d   Githaka, Naftaly ^a   Knowles, Donald P ^b   Scoles, Glen A ^b   Nene, Vishvanath ^c   de Villiers, Etienne ^a   Bishop, Richard P ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d International Livestock Research Institute   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Boophilus; Ixodes; Retroposon; Rhipicephalus; Short interspersed repetitive element; tRNA derived

Indexed keywords

SERINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BASE PAIRING; CLONE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE INSERTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STRUCTURE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TICK; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, INSECT; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; SALIVARY GLANDS; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ARTHROPODA; BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; CHELICERATA; IXODES; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS;

EID: 42649132446     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.01.026     Document Type: Article

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