Two variants of the Drosophila melanogaster retrotransposon gypsy (mdg4): Structural and functional differences, and distribution in fly stocks

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 367-374

  Lyubomirskaya, N V ^a   Smirnova, J B ^a   Razorenova, O V ^b   Karpova, N N ^b   Surkov, S A ^a   Avedisov, S N ^a   Kim, A I ^b   Ilyin, Y V ^a  

^a ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Genetic instability; gypsy (mdg4); Retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

POLYPROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0035048463     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380000427     Document Type: Article

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