REPEATS IN GENOMIC DNA - MINING AND MEANING

Authors
JURKA J
Citation
J. Jurka, REPEATS IN GENOMIC DNA - MINING AND MEANING, Current opinion in structural biology, 8(3), 1998, pp. 333-337
Citations number
44
Categorie Soggetti
Cell Biology",Biology
Journal title
Current opinion in structural biology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0959440X
Volume
8
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
333 - 337
Database
ISI
SICI code
0959-440X(1998)8:3<333:RIGD-M>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
For hundreds of millions of years, perhaps from the very beginning of their evolutionary history, eukaryotic cells have been habitats and ju nkyards for countless generations of transposable elements, preserved in repetitive DNA sequences. Analysis of these sequences, combined wit h experimental research, reveals a history of complex 'intracellular e cosystems' of transposable elements that are inseparably associated wi th genomic evolution.