DAB1: A degenerate retrotransposon-like element from Neurospora crassa

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 258, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 431-436

  Bibbins, M ^a   Cummings, N J ^a   Connerton, I F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fungi; Neurospora crassa; Repeat induced point mutation (RIP); Transposon

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; STRUCTURAL GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0031865033     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050752     Document Type: Article

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