Discovery of highly divergent repeat landscapes in snake genomes using high-throughput sequencing

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 641-653

  Castoe, Todd A ^a   Hall, Kathryn T ^a   Guibotsy Mboulas, Marcel L ^b   Gu, Wanjun ^a,e   Jason De Koning, A P ^a   Fox, Samuel E ^c   Poole, Alexander W ^a   Vemulapalli, Vijetha ^a   Daza, Juan M ^d   Mockler, Todd ^d   Smith, Eric N ^b   Feschotte, Cédric ^b   Pollock, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^e Southeast University   (China)

Author keywords

Burmese python; Copperhead; Microsatellite seeding; Non avian reptile comparative genomics; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

AGKISTRODON; AGKISTRODON CONTORTRIX; AVES; MAMMALIA; PYTHON MOLURUS BIVITTATUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AGKISTRODON; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; SNAKE; TRANSPOSON;

AGKISTRODON; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BOIDAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 79960892350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr043     Document Type: Article

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