Mobile elements and mammalian genome evolution

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 651-658

  Deininger, Prescott L ^a   Moran, John V ^b   Batzer, Mark A ^c   Kazazian Jr , Haig H ^d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ALU SEQUENCE; DNA RECOMBINATION; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; INSERTIONAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; LINE DIFFERENCE; MAMMAL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MAMMALIA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0344585056     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2003.10.013     Document Type: Review

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