Mobile elements in animal and plant genomes

Mobile DNA II

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 1074-1092

  Deininger, Prescott L ^a   Roy Engel, Astrid M ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal genome; Dna transposons; Long terminal repeat (ltr) retrotransposons; Mobile elements; Non ltr retrotransposons; Plant genomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85157978379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1128/9781555817954.ch47     Document Type: Chapter

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