Plant retrotransposons

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue , 1999, Pages 479-532

  Kumar, Amar ^a,b   Bennetzen, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA markers; Evolution; Genome organization; Mutation; Regulation; Retroelements

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER;

DNA CONTENT; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS; RETROELEMENTS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0033367409     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.33.1.479     Document Type: Review

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