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Network dynamics of eukaryotic LTR retroelements beyond phylogenetic trees.
Biology direct - 2 Nov 2009
Llorens Carlos, Muñoz-Pomer Alfonso, Bernad Lucia, Botella Hector, Moya Andrés
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sequencing projects have allowed diverse retroviruses and LTR retrotransposons from different eukaryotic organisms to be characterized. It is known that retroviruses and other retro-transcribing viruses evolve from LTR retrotransposons and that this whole system clusters into five families: Ty3/Gypsy, Retroviridae, Ty1/Copia, Bel/Pao and Caulimoviridae. Phylogenetic analyses usually show that these...
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