Rearrangements at a hobo element inserted into the first intron of the singed gene in the unstable sn49 system of Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 452-460

  O'Hare, K ^a   Tam, J L Y ^a   Lim, J K ^b   Yurchenko, N N ^c   Zakharov, I K ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chromosome rearrangements; Drosophila melanogaster; hobo; singed 49; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE INSERTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031935784     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050669     Document Type: Article

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