Cosuppression of I transposon activity in Drosophila by I- containing sense and antisense transgenes

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1767-1774

  Jensen, Silke ^a   Gassama, Marie Pierre ^a   Heidmann, Thierry ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MALE; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0032757554     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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