Mobile elements inserted in the distant past have taken on important functions

Gene

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 177-182

  Britten, Roy J ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Alu repeats; MIR repeat; Retrotransposons; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RETROELEMENTS; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 0031593249     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00399-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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