Extensive, nonrandom diversity of excision footprints generated by Ds- like transposon Ascot-1 suggests new parallels with V(D)J recombination

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 4337-4346

  Colot, Vincent ^a,b   Haedens, Vicki ^a   Rossignol, Jean Luc ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; PALINDROMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EXCISION REPAIR; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSPOSON;

ASCOBOLUS IMMERSUS; ASCOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0031860891     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.7.4337     Document Type: Article

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