A comparative analysis of the amounts and dynamics of transposable elements in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 113, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-86

  Vieira, Cristina ^a   Fablet, Marie ^a   Lerat, Emmanuelle ^a   Boulesteix, Matthieu ^a   Rebollo, Rita ^a   Burlet, Nelly ^a   Akkouche, Abdou ^a   Hubert, Benjamin ^a   Mortada, Hussein ^a   Biémont, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Genetic novelty; Genome size; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMAL REARRANGEMENT; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIGENETIC REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE NETWORKS; GENE REGULATORS; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC NOVELTY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZES; NATURAL POPULATION; POPULATION SIZES; REPEATED SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

GENES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION SIZE; RELATEDNESS;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS;

EID: 84861588931     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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