NUMTs in the sponge genome reveal conserved transposition mechanisms in metazoans

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-5

  Erpenbeck, D ^a,b,c   Voigt, O ^b   Adamski, M ^a,d   Woodcroft, B J ^a   Hooper, J N A ^c   Worheide G ^b   Degnan, B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology   (Norway)

Author keywords

mitochondrial evolution; NUMT; Porifera; pseudogene; transposable elements

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPHIMEDON QUEENSLANDICA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE INSERTION; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOGENE; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA;

AMPHIMEDON; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; EUKARYOTA; EUMETAZOA; METAZOA; PORIFERA;

EID: 78650499805     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq217     Document Type: Article

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