A complete full-length non-LTR retrotransposon, BMC1, on the W chromosome of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 353-358

  Abe, Hiroaki ^a   Ohbayashi, Fumi ^a   Shimada, Toru ^b   Sugasaki, Toshiyuki ^a   Kawai, Shinya ^a   Oshiki, Toshikazu ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON; SEX CHROMOSOME; SILKWORM;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 0032429548     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.73.353     Document Type: Article

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