Resident aliens the Tc1/mariner superfamily of transposable elements

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 326-332

  Plasterk, Ronald H A ^a   Izsvák, Zsuzsanna ^b   Ivics, Zoltán ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSPOSASES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0033179759     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01777-1     Document Type: Review

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