Characterization of new hAT transposable elements in 12 Drosophila genomes

Genetica

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-75

  De Freitas Ortiz, Mauro ^a   Loreto, Elgion Lucio Silva ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^b CCNE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

hAT transposons; Horizontal transfer; Transposable element; Transposase motifs

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOBO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSPOSASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOP CODON; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CODON, NONSENSE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSASES; ZINC FINGERS;

DROSOPHILA ANANASSAE; DROSOPHILA GRIMSHAWI; DROSOPHILA MOJAVENSIS; DROSOPHILA PERSIMILIS; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA;

EID: 56949101240     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-008-9259-5     Document Type: Article

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