The maize transposable element Ac induces recombination between the donor site and an homologous ectopic sequence

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1143-1151

  Shalev, Gil ^a   Levy, Avraham A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DONOR SITE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MAIZE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030749948     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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