The paleontology of intergene retrotransposons of maize

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-45

  SanMiguel, Phillip ^a,b   Gaut, Brandon S ^c   Tikhonov, Alexander ^a   Nakajima, Yuko ^a,b,c   Bennetzen, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; TIME; VARIATION (GENETICS); ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031707062     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1695     Document Type: Article

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