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    Title Page
    Mobile DNA: Finding Treasure in Junk
    Copyright Page
    Dedication Page
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    About the Author
    Preface: Thoughts on doing science
    1. Introduction to Mobile DNA
    2. Varieties of mobile DNA
    3. DNA transposons
    4. Mobile DNA of model organisms
    5. Exceptional scientists working on mobile DNA in lower organisms
    6. Role of bioinformatics in genome analysis
    7. The prologue
    8. “Welcome to the wonderful world of LINEs”
    9. An experimental breakthrough
    10. Reverse transcriptase to the rescue
    11. A quirk of L1 elements—a lousy 3' end is important for genome evolution
    12. A tour de force from Tom Eickbush
    13. “I don’t believe all those colonies represent retrotransposition events.”
    14. L1 encodes an endonuclease
    15. The jocks
    16. The mayor and the Frenchman
    17. Ostertag’s coups
    18. The independent Canadian
    19. The musician scientist
    20. Young ladies in the back bay
    21. The brilliant young lady from China
    22. Hiroki’s big surprises
    23. A young man with a purpose
    24. Other mobile DNA in mammalian genomes
    25. Effects of retrotransposons on mammalian genomes
    26. Host factors involved in L1 retrotransposition
    27. Why mobile DNA?
    28. The future of mobile DNA research
    29. Predictions for mobile DNA
    References
    Glossary
    Index
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    Mobile DNA: Finding Treasure in Junk

    Mobile DNA

    Finding Treasure in Junk

    Haig H. Kazazian, Jr.


      

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