Transposition of the Hermes element in embryos of the vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 359-363

  Sarkar, Abhimanyu ^a,b   Yardley, Kurt ^c   Atkinson, Peter W ^d,e   James, Anthony A ^c   O'Brochta, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes; Drosophila; Mosquitoes; Musca; Transformation Genetic engineering; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; HOUSE FLY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TRANSPOSON;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, INSECT; HOUSEFLIES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 0031149929     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(97)00018-0     Document Type: Article

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