restless, an active Ac-like transposon from the fungus tolypocladium inflatum: Structure, expression, and alternative RNA splicing

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 6563-6572

  Kempken, Frank ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FUNGAL GENETICS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; TOLYPOCLADIUM INFLATUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0029806170     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.11.6563     Document Type: Article

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