BMC Evolutionary Biology

official impact factor 3.70

Open Access Research article

CR1 clade of non-LTR retrotransposons from Maculinea butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): evidence for recent horizontal transmission

Olga Novikova1*, Ewa Śliwińska2, Victor Fet3, Josef Settele4, Alexander Blinov1 and Michal Woyciechowski2

Author Affiliations

1 Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

2 UJAG – Jagiellonian University, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Krakow, Poland

3 Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA

4 Department of Community Ecology, UFZ – Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Halle (Saale), Germany

For all author emails, please log on.

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:93 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-93

Published: 25 June 2007

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Additional data file 1 is a plain text document entitled ''Maculinea TEs alignment used for figure 1'' and contains the nucleotide fragments alignment in MEGA format which was used for phylogenetic tree reconstruction (Fig. 1).

Format: TXT Size: 43KB Download file

Open Data

Additional file 2:

Additional data file 2 is a plain text document entitled "BmCR1B whole sequence with features" and contains the nucleotide sequence of reconstructed BmCR1B element from B. mori with annotations.

Format: TXT Size: 7KB Download file

Open Data

Additional file 3:

Additional data file 3 is a word document entitled "contigs used in reconstruction BmCR1B" and contains the table of contigs used in reconstruction of BmCR1B element with GenBank accession numbers and locations of BmCR1B fragments.

Format: DOC Size: 43KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Microsoft Word Viewer

Open Data