The adaptive role of transposable elements in the Drosophila genome

Gene

Volumn 448, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-133

  González, Josefa ^a   Petrov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bottlenecks; Drosophila; In situ; Selfish DNA; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CHROMOSOME ARM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; INSECT GENETICS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, INSECT; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 70350248065     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2009.06.008     Document Type: Review

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