Structure of Hermes integrations in the germline of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-18

  Jasinskiene, N ^a   Coates, C J ^b   James, Anthony A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Hermes transposase

Indexed keywords

GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC MARKER; GERMLINE; PLASMID DNA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSASE; TRANSPOSON;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPOSASES;

AEDES AEGYPTI; INSECTA; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 0034144317     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2000.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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