Transposable elements and the evolution of regulatory networks

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 397-405

  Feschotte, Cédric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 42349096534     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2337     Document Type: Note

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