Dynamic interactions between transposable elements and their hosts

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 615-627

  Levin, Henry L ^a   Moran, John V ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOST; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIGENOMICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE;

EID: 80051997952     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3030     Document Type: Review

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