Presence of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) in the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana: Characterisation of the Emigrant family of elements

Plant Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-85

  Casacuberta, Elena ^a   Casacuberta, Josep M ^a   Puigdomènech, Pere ^a   Monfort, Amparo ^a  

^a Ctr d'Investigacio i D   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; GENOME ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ACARI; AEDES AEGYPTI; AERIES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032189921     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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