Long terminal repeat retrotransposons of Mus musculus

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  McCarthy, Eugene M ^a   McDonald, John F ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amino Acid Level; Long Terminal Repeat; Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons; Mouse Genome; Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NOMENCLATURE; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; GENOME; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RETROELEMENTS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 4644251975     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-3-r14     Document Type: Article

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