Direct determination of retrotransposon transposition rates in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetical Research

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 139-144

  Nuzhdin, Sergey V ^a   Mackay, Trudy F C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INBRED STRAIN; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUTATION; RETROVIRIDAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0028306352     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672300032249     Document Type: Article

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