The agents of natural genome editing

Journal of Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 181-189

  Witzany, Guenther ^a  

^a Telos Philosophische Praxis ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

cooped adaptation; non coding RNA; persistent virus; repetitive element; riboagent; transposable element

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PLANT; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; GENOME; HUMANS; PLANTS; RNA; RNA EDITING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUSES;

EID: 79958196168     PISSN: 16742788     EISSN: 17594685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmcb/mjr005     Document Type: Review

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