Isolation of the transposable element hupfer from the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana by insertion mutagenesis of the nitrate reductase structural gene

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-202

  Maurer, P ^a   Rejasse A ^a   Capy, P ^b   Langin, T ^c   Riba, G ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Filamentous fungus; IS; Tcl mariner; Transposon

Indexed keywords

NITRATE REDUCTASE; REPETITIVE DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; EXON; FUNGUS; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PROBES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSPOSASES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BASSIANA; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; NIA;

EID: 0030700516     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050561     Document Type: Article

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