TROMB, a new retrotransposon of the gypsy-Ty3 group from the fly Megaselia scalaris

Gene

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-57

  Suck, Garnet ^a   Traut, Walther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blastopia; mdg3; Micropia; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; TATA BOX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIPTERA; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0034609438     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00311-5     Document Type: Article

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