RIRE2, a novel gypsy-type retrotransposon from rice

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 83-91

  Ohtsubo, Hisako ^a   Kumekawa, Norikazu ^a   Ohtsubo, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; RICE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; FUSION PROTEINS, GAG-POL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033149858     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.74.83     Document Type: Article

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