The two Drosophila telomeric transposable elements have very different patterns of transcription

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 873-881

  Danilevskaya, O N ^a   Traverse, K L ^a   Hogan, N C ^a   DeBaryshe, P G ^a   Pardue, M L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; TELOMERE; TRANSPOSON;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0032938859     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.873     Document Type: Article

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