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A subtelomeric non-LTR retrotransposon Hebe in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga is subject to inactivation by deletions but not 5' truncations

Eugene A Gladyshev1,2 and Irina R Arkhipova1*

Author Affiliations

1 Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA

2 Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

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Mobile DNA 2010, 1:12 doi:10.1186/1759-8753-1-12

Published: 1 April 2010

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Additional file 1:

BoxShade alignment of amino acid sequences from the most conserved regions of open reading frame (ORF) 1 (p.1), endonuclease (p.2), and reverse transcriptase (p.3) domains from selected non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons analysed in Figure 4.

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Additional file 2:

Nucleotide sequences of Hebe elements obtained in this study.

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Additional file 3:

Analysis of non-synonymous to synonymous substitution ratios in open reading frame (ORF) 1 and ORF2 of Hebe.

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