Diversity of retrotransposable elements in compact pufferfish genomes

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 674-678

  Volff, Jean Nicolas ^a   Bouneau, Laurence ^b   Ozouf Costaz, Catherine ^c   Fischer, Cécile ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Genoscope   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FISH; FISH GENETICS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODON; TETRAODON NIGROVIRIDIS; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 0345724809     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2003.10.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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