The Specific Requirements for CR1 Retrotransposition Explain the Scarcity of Retrogenes in Birds

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 18-20

  Suh, Alexander ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chicken repeat 1; Land vertebrates; Long interspersed element; Microsatellite; Retrogene; Retrotransposition

Indexed keywords

AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); MAMMALIA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; RETROPOSON;

ANIMAL; BIRD; CHICKEN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROCODILIAN; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INVERTED REPEAT; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; TURTLE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; TURTLES;

EID: 84939468193     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-015-9692-x     Document Type: Letter

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