Article
Extreme heterogeneity of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons in plants.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Jan 1992
Flavell A J, Smith D B, Kumar A
Abstract excerpt
We have used the polymerase chain reaction to analyse Ty1-copia group retrotransposons of flowering plants. All eight species studied contain reverse transcriptase fragments from Ty1-copia group retrotransposons. Sequence analysis of 31 subcloned fragments from potato reveals that each is different from the others, with predicted amino acid diversities between individual fragments varying between 5% and 75%. Such...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Fabaceae
- Genetic Variation
- Hordeum
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
