Transposable elements: Not as quiet as a mouse

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rebollo, Rita ^a,b   Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Mager, Dixie L ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comparative genetics; Evolution; Mouse strains; Natural selection; Next generation sequencing; Transposable elements; Variants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PURIFYING SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOMICS; MALE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84862283429     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-6-159     Document Type: Article

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