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PhD program in
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Genetics and Molecular and Structural Evolution
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Coordinated by Prof. Mariano Rocchi
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Retrotransposons in Drosophila as insulators L.Viggiano |
Functional analysis of Drosophila retrotransposons as source of powerful inter-specific insulator sequences for the development of integrating vectors that are able to escape to position effects and gene-toxicity in gene therapy trials.
Published papers (selection) (click to download the pdf)
De Grassi A, Caggese C, D'Elia D, Lanave C, Pesole G, Saccone C: Evolution of nuclearly encoded mitochondrial genes in Metazoa. Gene 354:181-188 (2005)
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