Transposable elements: From DNA parasites to architects of metazoan evolution

Genes

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 409-422

  Piskurek, Oliver ^a   Jackson, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exaptation; Exonisation; Functionalisation; Junk DNA; LINE; Molecular domestication; Molecular parasite; SINE; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

BRANCHIOSTOMA; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYDRA; INVERTED TERMINAL REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TRANSPOSON; TRICHOPLAX;

EID: 84865086233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes3030409     Document Type: Review

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