Trans-kingdom transposition of the Drosophila element mariner within the protozoan Leishmania

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5319, 1997, Pages 1716-1719

  Gueiros Filho, Frederico J ^a   Beverley, Stephen M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CINNAMATES; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HYGROMYCIN B; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPOSASES;

DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0030754329     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5319.1716     Document Type: Article

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