Control of mobile dna

Mobile DNA II

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 997-1007

  Fedoroff, Nina ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene silencing; Genome; Mobile dna; Retrotransposons; Transposons

Indexed keywords

EID: 85158069752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1128/9781555817954.ch42     Document Type: Chapter

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