Conserved subfamilies of the drosophila HeT-A telomere-specific retrotransposon

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 233-242

  Danilevskaya, Olga N ^a   Lowenhaupt, Ky ^a   Pardue, Mary Lou ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERE;

EID: 0031882495     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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