Repeats in genomic DNA: Mining and meaning

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 333-337

  Jurka, Jerzy ^a  

^a Genetic Information Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032103760     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(98)80067-5     Document Type: Article

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