Ty3, a position-specific, gypsy-like element in saccharomyces cerevisiae

Mobile DNA II

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 663-683

  Sandmeyer, Suzanne B ^a   Aye, Michael ^a   Menees, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Long terminal repeat (LTR); Retrotransposons; Retrovirus; S. cerevisiae; Ty3

Indexed keywords

EID: 85118520241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1128/9781555817954.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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