Recent Progress in Understanding the Mechanism and Consequences of Retrotransposon Movement

• Author: David J. Garfinkel (Ed.); Katarzyna J. Purzycka (Ed.)
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (VIII, 194 p.)

Retrotransposons are present in essentially all eukaryotic genomes and come in two basic flavors: those that are bracketed by long terminal repeats (LTRs) and share a common ancestor with retroviruses, and non-LTR retrotransposons that have a distinct lineage and remain transpositionally active in h...