The Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni, contains multiple members of the hAT family of transposable elements

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 423-434

  Pinkerton, A C ^a,b   Whyard, S ^b   Mende, H A ^b   Coates, C J ^b,c,e   O'Brochta, D A ^d   Atkinson, P W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bactrocera tryoni; hAT transposable element

Indexed keywords

GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMER LIKE ELEMENT; INSECT GENETICS; INVERTED TERMINAL REPEAT; OPEN READING FRAME; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPTERA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUEENSLAND; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0033231239     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.1999.00137.x     Document Type: Article

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