Self-primed reverse transcription is a mechanism shared by several LTR-containing retrotransposons

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 952-953

  Lin, Jia Hwei ^a   Levin, Henry L ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ASCOMYCETES; BINDING SITE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LETTER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; RETROPOSON;

ASCOMYCOTA; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031230399     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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