Transposable elements and host genome evolution

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 95-99

  Kidwell, Margaret G ^a   Lisch, Damon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST;

DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0034160156     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01817-0     Document Type: Review

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