Molecular structure of the transposable element ninja in Drosophila simulans

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-8

  Ogura, Keiji ^a   Takechi, Shinji ^b   Nakayama, Tatsuo ^b   Yamamoto, Masa Toshi ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; RETROPOSON; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

DROSOPHILA SIMULANS;

EID: 0029808122     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.71.1     Document Type: Article

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