Tad, a Neurospora LINE-like retrotransposon exhibits a complex pattern of transcription

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 137-145

  Sewell, Elaine ^a,b   Kinsey, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BIOGEN   (United States)

Author keywords

LINE like element; Neurospora; Retrotransposon; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROELEMENTS; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

NEUROSPORA;

EID: 0029855376     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004389670015     Document Type: Article

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