Network dynamics of eukaryotic LTR retroelements beyond phylogenetic trees

Biology Direct

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Llorens, Carlos ^a,b   Muñoz Pomer, Alfonso ^b,c   Bernad, Lucia ^b   Botella, Hector ^a,b   Moya, Andrés ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^d Centro Superior de Investigacion en Salud Publica CSISP   (Spain)

^e CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAULIMOVIRIDAE; EUKARYOTA; RETRO-TRANSCRIBING VIRUSES; RETROVIRIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAULIMOVIRIDAE; EUKARYOTE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CAULIMOVIRIDAE; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; RETROVIRIDAE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 71149118599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-41     Document Type: Article

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