PiggyBac-ing on a primate genome: Novel elements, recent activity and horizontal transfer

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 293-303

  Pagan, Heidi J T ^a   Smith, Jeremy D ^a,b   Hubley, Robert M ^c   Ray, David A ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal transfer; PiggyBac; Primate; Transposon

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEIROGALEIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHEIROGALEIDAE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIME FACTORS;

LEMUR; MAMMALIA; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 77958455491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evq021     Document Type: Article

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