Zebedee: A novel copia-Ty1 family of transposable elements in the genome of the medically important mosquito Aedes aegypti

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 254, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 505-513

  Warren, A M ^a   Hughes, M A ^a   Crampton, J M ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; copia Ty1 class; Short terminal repeats; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; PROTEINASE; REPETITIVE DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOSQUITO; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE DOSAGE; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AEDES AEGYPTI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030974204     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050445     Document Type: Article

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