Genome evolution: Sex and the transposable element

Current Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2001, Pages

  Wright, Stephen ^a   Finnegan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENOME; MATING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT;

EID: 0035901590     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00168-3     Document Type: Review

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