Tracking marsupial evolution using archaic genomic retroposon insertions

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Nilsson, Maria A ^a   Churakov, Gennady ^a   Sommer, Mirjam ^a   van Tran, Ngoc ^a   Zemann, Anja ^a   Brosius, Jürgen ^a   Schmitz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; COMPUTER MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HOMOPLASY; KANGAROO; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MIGRATION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; ORDO; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOME; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIMORPHIA; EUTHERIA; MACROPODIDAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MICROBIOTHERIA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; MACROPODIDAE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS;

EID: 77955027318     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000436     Document Type: Article

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