The Hermes element from Musca domestica can transpose in four families of cyclorrhaphan flies

Genetica

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-29

  Sarkar, Abhimanyu ^a,b   Coates, Craig J ^c   Whyard, Steven ^c   Willhoeft, Ute ^d,e   Atkinson, Peter W ^c   O'Brochta, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Musca; Recombination; Transgenics; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030871750     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02259495     Document Type: Article

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