Retrotransposons Are the Major Contributors to the Expansion of the
Publication/Presentation Date
8-7-2017
Abstract
The discordance between genome size and the complexity of eukaryotes can partly be attributed to differences in repeat density. The Muller F element (∼5.2 Mb) is the smallest chromosome in
Volume
7
Issue
8
First Page
2439
Last Page
2460
ISSN
2160-1836
Published In/Presented At
Leung, W., Shaffer, C. D., Chen, E. J., Quisenberry, T. J., Ko, K., Braverman, J. M., Giarla, T. C., Mortimer, N. T., Reed, L. K., Smith, S. T., Robic, S., McCartha, S. R., Perry, D. R., Prescod, L. M., Sheppard, Z. A., Saville, K. J., McClish, A., Morlock, E. A., Sochor, V. R., Stanton, B., … Elgin, S. C. R. (2017). Retrotransposons Are the Major Contributors to the Expansion of the Drosophila ananassae Muller F Element. G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 7(8), 2439–2460. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.040907
PubMedID
28667019
Department(s)
Department of Family Medicine
Document Type
Article