Tam3 in Antirrhinum majus is exceptional transposon in resistant to alteration by abortive gap repair: Identification of nested transposons

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 468-474

  Yamashita, S ^a   Mikami, T ^a   Kishima, Y ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abortive gap repair; Antirrhinum majus; Nested transposons; Structural conservation; Tam3

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HIGHER PLANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0031688860     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050837     Document Type: Article

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