Active transposition in genomes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 651-675

  Huang, Cheng Ran Lisa ^a   Burns, Kathleen H ^a   Boeke, Jef D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HELITRON; HUMAN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NON LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SOMATIC TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON INSERTION POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, PLANT; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84870172631     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110711-155616     Document Type: Article

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