Insertions of a novel class of transposable elements with a strong target site preference at the r locus of maize

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 681-693

  Walker, Elsbeth L ^a,b   Eggleston, William B ^c   Demopulos, Demetrios ^d,e   Kermicle, Jerry ^d   Dellaporta, Stephen L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSPOSON;

ANTHOCYANINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030940267     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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