The Ty1-copia group retrotransposons in Vicia species: Copy number, sequence heterogeneity and chromosomal localisation

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 305-315

  Pearce, Stephen R ^a   Harrison, Gill ^b   Li, Dongtao ^a   Heslop Harrison, J S ^b   Kumar, Amar ^c   Flavell, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copia; Heterochromatin; Plant; Retrotransposon; Vicia

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE LOCATION; GENE NUMBER; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; VICIA FABA;

VICIA; VICIA FABA; VICIA SATIVA; VICIA SPP.;

EID: 0029986858     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02174388     Document Type: Article

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