A long terminal repeat retrotransposon of fission yeast has strong preferences for specific sites of insertion

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 44-55

  Singleton, Teresa L ^a   Levin, Henry L ^b  

^a DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYXOGASTRIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSPOSONS;

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; GENOME; INTRON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; RETROPOSON; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; PLASMIDS; RETROELEMENTS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0036463827     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.01.1.44-55.2002     Document Type: Article

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