Structural analysis of the plasmid pAAT56 of the filamentous fungus Alternaria alternata

Gene

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-57

  Kaneko, Isao ^a   Katsuya, Satoshi ^a   Tsuge, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Phytopathogenic fungus; Retroelement; Reverse transcriptase; Ribonuclease H

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; PLASMID DNA; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ALTERNARIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE MAPPING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE;

EID: 0030779684     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00490-3     Document Type: Article

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