Evolution of multiple families of non-LTR retrotransposons in phlebotomine sandflies

Genetical Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 227-237

  Booth, David R ^a   Ready, Paul D ^a   Smith, Deborah F ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PSYCHODIDAE; RETROPOSON; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LARROUSSIUS; MELANOGASTER; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOSUS; PHLEBOTOMUS TOBBI; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0029894777     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300033711     Document Type: Article

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