Identification of a pentanucleotide telomeric sequence, (TTAGG)n, in the silkworm Bombyx mori and in other insects

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 1424-1432

  Okazaki, Satoshi ^a   Tsuchida, Kozo ^b   Maekawa, Hideaki ^b   Ishikawa, Hajime ^a   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM; TELOMERE;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSS REACTIONS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE LIBRARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SILKWORMS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TELOMERE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0027394608     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.13.3.1424     Document Type: Article

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