Methods for detection of horizontal transfer of transposable elements in complete genomes

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2012, Pages 1078-1084

  de Carvalho, Marcos Oliveira ^a   Loreto, Elgion L S ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computational analysis; Evolution; Genome; Horizontal transfer; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSPOSON;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84872458470     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572012000600024     Document Type: Review

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