Mobilization of a Minos transposon in Drosophila melanogaster chromosomes and chromatid repair by heteroduplex formation

Genetics

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 267-279

  Arcà, Bruno ^a,d   Zabalou, Sophia ^e   Loukeris, Thanasis G ^a   Savakis, Charalambos ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EXCISION; GENE TARGETING; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, CIRCULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; TRANSPOSASES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031032329     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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