Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$323,160.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Although the constancy of genetic information is central, genomes are surprisingly unstable. Transposable elements, i.e.discrete DNA segments that can move between many non-homologous positions, are widespread, having been found in virtually all organisms