Promoting in tandem: The promoter for telomere transposon HeT-A and implications for the evolution of retroviral LTRs

Cell

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 647-655

  Danilevskaya, O N ^a   Arkhipova, I R ^b   Traverse, K L ^a   Pardue, M L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0030999937     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81907-8     Document Type: Article

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