The Chironomus thummi genome contains a non-LTR retrotransposon

MGG Molecular & General Genetics

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 412-420

  Blinov, A G ^a   Sobanov, Y V ^a   Bogachev, S S ^a   Donchenko, A P ^a   Filippova, M A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chironomus thummi; Cysteine motifs; in situ hybridization; Non LTR retrotransposon; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BALBIANI RING; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0027468742     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: 16174623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00279446     Document Type: Article

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