Conserved structure and inferred evolutionary history of long terminal repeats (LTRs)

Mobile DNA

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Benachenhou, Farid ^a,b   Sperber, Göran O ^a   Bongcam Rudloff, Erik ^b   Andersson, Göran ^b   Boeke, Jef D ^c   Blomberg, Jonas ^a,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Genome evolution; Long terminal repeat; LTR; Phylogeny; Retrotransposon; Retrovirus

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METAVIRIDAE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOVIRIDAE; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TATA BOX; VIRUS;

EID: 84875348477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17598753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1759-8753-4-5     Document Type: Review

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