Immobilized copies with a nearly intact structure of the transposon Tam3 in Antirrhinum majus: Implications for the cis-element related to the transposition

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1246-1251

  Kishima, Yuji ^a   Yamashita, Shiko ^a   Mikami, Tetsuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antirrhinum majus; Subterminal region; Tam3; Terminal inverted repeats; The immobilized copy; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS;

EID: 0031434429     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001220050688     Document Type: Article

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