The diversity of class II transposable elements in mammalian genomes has arisen from ancestral phylogenetic splits during ancient waves of proliferation through the genome

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 100-108

  Hellen, Elizabeth H B ^a   Brookfield, John F Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

class II; evolution; molecular dating; transposons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAT; CHIMPANZEE; COW; DOG; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENOME; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MOST RECENT COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; ORGANISMS BY PHYLOGENETIC POSITION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SWINE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CATS; CATTLE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PONGO; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; SWINE; URSIDAE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; MAMMALIA; PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84871823219     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss206     Document Type: Article

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