Drosophila melanogaster histone H2B retropseudogene is inserted into a region rich in transposable elements

Genome

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 396-401

  Akhmanova, Anna ^a,b   Hennig, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Histone H2B; Retropseudogene

Indexed keywords

GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; HISTONE; INSECT GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032097894     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g98-035     Document Type: Article

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