Ikirara, a novel transposon family from the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-10

  Romans, P ^a   Bhattacharyya, R K ^a   Colavita, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; DNA to DNA transposon; Ikirara; Vector mosquito

Indexed keywords

DNA; IKIRARA1 PROTEIN, ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE; GENETICS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0032008215     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.1998.71046.x     Document Type: Article

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