Functional analysis of deletion derivatives of the maize transposon MuDR delineates roles for the MURA and MURB proteins

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 331-341

  Lisch, Damon ^a,b   Girard, Lisa ^a   Donlin, Maureen ^a,c   Freeling, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, PLANT; MUTAGENESIS; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032896371     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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