Structural conservation of the transposon Tam3 family in Antirrhinum majus and estimation of the number of copies able to transpose

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 299-308

  Kishima, Yuji ^a   Yamashita, Shiko ^a   Martin, Cathie ^b   Mikami, Tetsuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antirrhinum majus; Conserved organization; Movable copy number; Tam3; Transposon family

Indexed keywords

HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANTS;

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033062364     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006129413306     Document Type: Article

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