Impact of transposable elements on the evolution of mammalian gene regulation

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 342-352

  Medstrand, P ^a   Van De Lagemaat, L N ^b   Dunn, C A ^b   Landry, J R ^b   Svenback, D ^a   Mager, D L ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MAMMALS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 23844534414     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084966     Document Type: Review

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