Distinct families of site-specific retrotransposons occupy identical positions in the rRNA genes of Anopheles gambiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 5102-5110

  Besansky, Nora J ^a,b   Paskewitz, Susan M ^a,c   Hamm, Diane Mills ^a   Collins, Frank H ^a,b  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES MELAS; ANOPHELES MERUS; ANOPHELES QUADRIANNULATUS;

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026701230     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.12.11.5102     Document Type: Article

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