Identification and characterization of Tc1/mariner-like DNA transposons in genomes of the pathogenic fungi of the Paracoccidioides species complex

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Marini, Marjorie M ^a   Zanforlin, Tamiris ^b   Santos, Patrícia C ^a   Barros, Roberto R M ^b   Guerra, Anne C P ^a   Puccia, Rosana ^b   Felipe, Maria S S ^c   Brigido, Marcelo ^c   Soares, Célia M A ^d   Ruiz, Jerônimo C ^e   Silveira, José F ^b   Cisalpino, Patrícia S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE; FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES LUTZII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON MARINER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

ASCOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; TREMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77649329521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-130     Document Type: Article

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