Transposition of maize Ac/Ds transposable elements in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Nature Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-190

  Weil, Clifford F ^a   Kunze, Reinhard ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE DOSAGE; INTRON; MAIZE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; ZEA MAYS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033780451     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/82827     Document Type: Article

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