Contents
Preface: Thoughts on Doing Science
Chapter 1 Introduction to Mobile DNA
Chapter 2 Varieties of Mobile DNA
Chapter 4 Mobile DNA of Model Organisms
Chapter 5 Exceptional Scientists Working on Mobile DNA in Lower Organisms
Chapter 6 Role of Bioinformatics in Genome Analysis
Chapter 8 “Welcome to the Wonderful World of LINEs”
Chapter 9 An Experimental Breakthrough
Chapter 10 Reverse Transcriptase to the Rescue
Chapter 11 A Quirk of L1 Elements—A Lousy 3' End Is Important for Genome Evolution
Chapter 12 A Tour de Force from Tom Eickbush
Chapter 13 “I don’t believe all those colonies represent retrotransposition events.”
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