Retrotransposons and germ cells: Reproduction, death, and diversity

F1000 Biology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Seisenberger, Stefanie ^a   Popp, Christian ^a   Reik, Wolf ^a,b  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77955074971     PISSN: 17404118     EISSN: 1757594X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3410/B2-44     Document Type: Review

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