Transposable elements and the dynamic somatic genome
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Perspective : Transposable Elements , Parasitic Dna , and Genome
The nature of the role played by mobile elements in host genome evolution is reassessed considering numerous recent developments in many areas of biology. It is argued that easy popular appellations such as ‘‘selfish DNA’’ and ‘‘junk DNA’’ may be either inaccurate or misleading and that a more enlightened view of the transposable element-host relationship encompasses a continuum from extreme pa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Genome Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1465-6906
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-s1-s5