Mammalian retroelements

Genome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1455-1465

  Deininger, Prescott L ^a,b   Batzer, Mark A ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MAMMALS; RETROELEMENTS;

EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036796354     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.282402     Document Type: Review

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