Rampant horizontal transfer of SPIN transposons in squamate reptiles

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 503-515

  Gilbert, Clément ^a   Hernandez, Sharon S ^a   Flores Benabib, Jaime ^a   Smith, Eric N ^a   Feschotte, Cédric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

horizontal transfer; reptiles; transposable elements

Indexed keywords

DNA; RAG1 PROTEIN;

AFRICA; ALLIGATOR; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CENOZOIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FAMILY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; LIZARD; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPTILE; SLOT BLOT HYBRIDIZATION; SNAKE; SOUTH AMERICA; TRANSPOSON; TURTLE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, MOS; GENES, RAG-1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855898254     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr181     Document Type: Article

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