Transposable elements donate lineage-specific regulatory sequences to host genomes

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 333-341

  Marino Ramirez L ^a   Lewis, K C ^b   Landsman, D ^a   Jordan, I K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 23844538442     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084965     Document Type: Review

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