DNA structures common for chironomid telomeres terminating with complex repeats

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 341-347

  Rosen M ^a   Edström, Jan Erik ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Centromere; Chironomus dilutus; Palindrome; Sequence evolution; Subtelomere; Telomere

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONFORMATION; GENE; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIRONOMIDAE; DNA; GENES, INSECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS DILUTUS; CHIRONOMUS PALLIDIVITTATUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034211023     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2000.00193.x     Document Type: Article

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