The ecology of the genome - Mobile DNA elements and their hosts

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 128-136

  Brookfield, John F Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AUTOREGULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PARASITISM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS;

EUKARYOTA; OTHER SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 13144255696     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1524     Document Type: Review

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