Genomic scrap yard: How genomes utilize all that junk

Gene

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 61-67

  Maka, Wojciech ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Exaptation; Genome shuffling; Genomic evolution; Junk DNA; Repetitive elements; Retrogenes

Indexed keywords

DNA; SELFISH DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIODIVERSITY; CELL FUNCTION; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034707216     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00436-4     Document Type: Article

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