Mobile DNA: Finding Treasure in Junk

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haig H Kazazian, Jr
Format: Printed Book
Published: Noida Pearson Education 2012
Subjects:
Insertion elements, DNA. Transposons. Recombinant DNA. Genomics. DNA Transposable Elements. DNA, Recombinant > physiology. Genomics > methods. Sequence Analysis, DNA.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Thoughts on doing science
  • Introduction to mobile DNA
  • Varieties of mobile DNA
  • DNA transposons
  • Mobile DNA of model organisms
  • Exceptional scientists working on mobile DNA in lower organisms
  • Role of bioinformatic in genome analysis
  • The prologue
  • "Welcome to th wonderful world of LINEs"
  • An experimental breakthrough
  • Reverse transcriptase to the rescue
  • A quirk of L1 elements: a lousy 3' end is important for genome evolution
  • A tour de force from Tom Eickbush
  • "I don't believe all those colonies represent retrotransposition events."
  • L1 encodes an endonuclease
  • The jocks
  • The mayor and the Frenchman
  • Ostertag's coups
  • The independent Canadian
  • The musician scientist
  • Young ladies in the Back Bay
  • The brilliant young lady from China
  • Hiroki's big surprises
  • A young man with a purpose
  • Other Mobile DNA in mammalian genomes
  • Effects of retrotransposons on mammalian genomes
  • Host factors involved in L1 retrotransposition
  • Why mobile DNA?
  • The future of mobile DNA research
  • Predictions for Mobile DNA.

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