Characterization of repetitive DNA elements in Arabidopsis

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 684-691

  Surzycki, Stefan A ^a   Belknap, William R ^a  

^a WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Miniature inverted repeat transposable element; Plant; Recombination; Retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ALGORITHMS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032996513     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006512     Document Type: Article

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