Exploring frontiers in the DNA landscape: An introduction to the symposium "genome analysis and the molecular systematics of retroelements"

Systematic Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 871-874

  Shedlock, Andrew M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interspersed repeat; LINE; Phylogenomics; Retroelements; SINE; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 34147160752     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150601077634     Document Type: Article

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