The relationship between the rate of transposition and transposable element copy number for copia and Doc retrotransposons of Drosophila melanogaster

Genetical Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-11

  Pasyukova, Elena G ^a,b   Nuzhdin, Sergey V ^b,c   Filatov, Dmitry A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE NUMBER; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; MALE; RETROELEMENTS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; ILEX COOKII; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031717937     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672398003358     Document Type: Article

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