The outs and ins of transposition: From MU to kangaroo

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 865-877

  Curcio, M Joan ^a,b   Derbyshire, Keith M ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HUMANS; MACROPODIDAE; TELOMERE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSASES;

EUKARYOTA; MACROPUS SP.; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0242636324     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1241     Document Type: Review

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