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

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

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

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

3Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA

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

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:93doi: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).

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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.

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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.

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