On the role of unequal exchange in the containment of transposable element copy number

Genetical Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 223-235

  Langley, Charles H ^a   Montgomery, Elizabeth ^a   Hudson, Richard ^a   Kaplan, Norman ^a   Charlesworth, Brian ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024210911     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672300027695     Document Type: Article

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