Modes of retrotransposition of long interspersed element-1 by environmental factors

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Ishizaka, Yukihito ^a   Okudaira, Noriyuki ^a,b   Tamura, Masato ^a   Iijima, Kenta ^a   Shimura, Mari ^a   Goto, Motohito ^a   Okamura, Tadashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

bHLH PAS family; Environmental factors; Line 1; Retrotransposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875869846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00191     Document Type: Review

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