The Drosophila micropia retrotransposon encodes a testis-specific antisense RNA complementary to reverse transcriptase

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 1764-1775

  Lankenau, Susanne ^a   Corges, Victor G ^a   Lankenau, Dirk Henner ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GERM LINE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA HYDEI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0028349604     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.14.3.1764     Document Type: Article

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