Common evolutionary trends for SINE RNA structures.

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Short interspersed elements (SINEs) and long interspersed elements (LINEs) are transposable elements in eukaryotic genomes that mobilize through an RNA intermediate. Understanding their evolution is important because of their impact on the host genome. Most eukaryotic SINEs are ancestrally related to tRNA genes, although the typical tRNA cloverleaf structure is not apparent for most SINE consensus RNAs. Using a cladistic method where RNA structural components were coded as polarized and order...

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Authors: Sun, F; Fleurdépine, S; Bousquet-Antonelli, C; Caetano-Anollés, G; Deragon, J

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Trends in genetics : TIG
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 26-33
• Publication date: 2007-01-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2006.11.005
• ISSN: 0168-9525
• Language: English
• Keywords: Phylogeny; Evolution, Molecular; RNA, Transfer; Selection, Genetic; Models, Genetic; Gene Expression Regulation; Short Interspersed Nucleotide Elements