Transposable elements: Self-seekers of the germline, team-players of the soma

BioEssays

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1158-1166

  Haig, David ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

embryonic stem cells; germ granule; germline; pluripotency; transposable elements; trophectoderm; zygotic genome activation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN;

TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HUMANS;

EID: 84992445366     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201600125     Document Type: Article

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