The contribution of RNAs and retroposition to evolutionary novelties

Genetica

Volumn 118, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 99-115

  Brosius, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic novelties; Genome evolution; Genome expansion and shrinkage; Retroposition; Survival of reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013161988     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024141306559     Document Type: Review

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