Recent amplification of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements in the vector mosquito Culex pipiens: Characterization of the Mimo family

Gene

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 109-116

  Feschotte, Cédric ^a   Mouchès, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Genome evolution; MITEs; Pogo; Repetitive DNA; Transposons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULEX PIPIENS; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CULEX; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; INSECT VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; CULEX PIPIENS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0034732992     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00187-6     Document Type: Article

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