Hairpin elements, the first family of foldback transposons (FTs) in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 591-597

  Adé, Jules ^a   Belzile, François J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PLANT GENOME; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 0033199912     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00567.x     Document Type: Article

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