A survey of transposable element classification systems - A call for a fundamental update to meet the challenge of their diversity and complexity

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 90-109

  Piégu, Benoît ^a   Bire, Solenne ^a,b   Arensburger, Peter ^a,c   Bigot, Yves ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Host range; Mobility; Nuclease; Recombinase; Ribozyme; Transposon

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

INTEIN; RETROPOSON; TRANSPOSON;

CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTEINS; INTRONS; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84925957223     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.03.009     Document Type: Review

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