Evolution of species-specific promoter-associated mechanisms for protecting chromosome ends by Drosophila Het-A telomeric transposons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5064-5069

  Traverse, Karen L ^a   George, Janet A ^a   Debaryshe, P G ^a   Pardue, Mary Lou ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

End replication problem; Promoter evolution; Retrotransposons; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EVOLUTION; HET A TRANSPOSON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; TRANSPOSON;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS;

EID: 77950405366     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000612107     Document Type: Article

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