Sex and retrotransposons: A new approach to the problem

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 259-260

  Xu, Tian Hong ^a   Deng, Ke Jing ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SEX; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE; VIRUS MUTATION;

TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0036402557     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2002.3074     Document Type: Editorial

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