Host defenses to transposable elements and the evolution of genomic imprinting

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 242-249

  McDonald, J F ^a   Matzke, M A ^b   Matzke, A J ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 23844451370     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084958     Document Type: Review

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