The Trickster in the genome: Contribution and control of transposable elements

Genes to Cells

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 827-841

  Nakayashiki, Hitoshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79960745500     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2011.01533.x     Document Type: Review

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