The maize transposable element activator (Ac)

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 204, Issue , 1996, Pages 160-194

  Kunze, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC REGULATION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0029655326     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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