Javier C. Costas

Address for correspondence:                                                                  Telephone: 351-22-6074900 

Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular                                                 E-mail: jccostas@ibmc.up.pt

Universidade do Porto

 Rua do Campo Alegre 823                                                                   Go back to main page

4150-180 Porto 

Portugal

Publications

            COSTAS J. 2002. Molecular characterization of the recent intragenomic spread of murine endogenous retrovirus MuERV-L. J. Mol. Evol.

                  , in press.

            COSTAS J. 2002. Characterization of the intragenomic spread of the human endogenous retrovirus family HERV-W.

                  Mol. Biol. Evol., 19:526-533.

            VEGA A, A. SALAS, J. COSTAS, F. BARROS, and A. CARRACEDO. 2001. Length variability and interspersion patterns 

                  of the HRAS1 minisatellite: a new approach for the reconstruction of human population relationships. Ann. Hum. Genet. 65:

                  351-361.

            COSTAS J. 2001. Evolutionary dynamics of the human endogenous retrovirus family HERV-K inferred from full-length proviral

                  genomes. J. Mol. Evol. 53: 237-243.

            COSTAS J, E. VALADE, and H. NAVEIRA. 2001. Structural features of the mdg1 lineage of the Ty3/gypsy group of LTR

                  retrotransposons inferred from the phylogenetic analyses of its open reading frames. J. Mol. Evol. 53: 165-171.

            COSTAS J, E. VALADE, and H. NAVEIRA. 2001. Amplification and phylogenetic relationships of a subfamily of blood, a

                  retrotransposable element of Drosophila. J. Mol. Evol. 52: 342-350.

            COSTAS J, and H. NAVEIRA. 2000. Evolutionary history of the human endogenous retrovirus family ERV9. Mol. Biol. Evol. 

                  17: 320-330.

                  element and the Drosophila genome. Dros. Inf. Serv. 80: 41-42.