Germ line transposition of the copia retrotransposon in Drosophila melanogaster is restricted to males by tissue-specific control of copia RNA levels

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-124

  Pasyukova, E ^a   Nuzhdin, S ^a,b   Li, W ^c,d   Flavell, A J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copia; Drosophila melanogaster; Germ line transposition; LTR retrotransposon; Tissue specific transcription

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERM LINE; INBREEDING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SPERMATOCYTE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; RETROELEMENTS; RNA; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030814489     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050479     Document Type: Article

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