Bigfoot: A new family of MITE elements characterized from the Medicago genus

Plant Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 431-441

  Charrier, Bénédicte ^a,d   Foucher, Fabrice ^a   Kondorosi, Eva ^a   D'Aubenton Carafa, Yves ^b   Thermes, Claude ^b   Kondorosi, Adam ^a,c   Ratet, Pascal ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, PLANT; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033136549     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00469.x     Document Type: Article

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