Moose, a new family of LTR-retrotransposons in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 201-212

  Biessmann, Harald ^a   Walter, M F ^a   Le, D ^a   Chuan, S ^a   Yao, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; Germ line expression; LTR retrotransposon; Mosquito; Sequence

Indexed keywords

CLONING VECTOR; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RETROPOSON; RNA EXPRESSION;

ALCES ALCES; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033136444     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.1999.820201.x     Document Type: Article

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