Repetitive DNA elements as mediators of genomic change in response to environmental cues

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 531-543

  Schmidt, Adele L ^a,b   Anderson, Lucy M ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Genome evolution; Microsatellite; Repetitive DNA; Retrotransposons; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CLONE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LIFE CYCLE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; POINT MUTATION; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750714399     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S146479310600710X     Document Type: Review

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