Integration of Retroposable Elements in Mammals: Selection of Target Sites

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 685-689

  Jurka, Jerzy ^a   Klonowski, Paul ^a  

^a Genetic Information Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Integration targets; Retroposons

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; LETTER; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 0030331832     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02202117     Document Type: Article

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