The impact of transposable elements on gene and genome evolution

Plant Genome Diversity Volume 1: Plant Genomes, their Residents, and their Evolutionary Dynamics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 35-58

  Slotkin, R Keith ^a   Nuthikattu, Saivageethi ^a   Jiang, Ning ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-1130-7_3     Document Type: Chapter

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