Functional and Structural Divergence of an Unusual LTR Retrotransposon Family in Plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Gao, Dongying ^a   Jimenez Lopez, Jose C ^b   Iwata, Aiko ^a   Gill, Navdeep ^a,c   Jackson, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER MODEL; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORYZA; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; RETROPOSON; RETROSAT2 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SORGHUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETROELEMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA; ORYZA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84868279933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048595     Document Type: Article

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