A Field Guide to Transposable Elements

Plant Transposons and Genome Dynamics in Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 15-40

  Schulman, Alan H ^a   Wicker, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C value paradox; Class II Elements; Genome size determination; Non autonomous transposable; Non LTR LTR retrotransposons; TEs microRNAs in biological; Transposable element demography; Transposable element quantity; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886495928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118500156.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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