Dictyostelium mobile elements: Strategies to amplify in a compact genome

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2097-2111

  Winckler, T ^a   Dingermann, T ^a   Glockner G ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IMB Jena   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Genomics; Integration; Mobile element; Retrotransposon; tRNA

Indexed keywords

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME 2; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, TRANSFER;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; ILEX COOKII; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYXOGASTRIA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0036970123     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180200010     Document Type: Review

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