Accumulation of transposable elements in the heterochromatin and on the Y chromosome of Drosophila simulans and Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 661-668

  Junakovic, Nikolaj ^a   Terrinoni, Alessandro ^a   Di Franco, Carmen ^a   Vieira, Cristina ^b   Loevenbruck, Catherine ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

D. simulans; Drosophila melanogaster; Heterochromatin; Transposable elements; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, CATALYTIC; Y CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031865506     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006346     Document Type: Article

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