Mutator transposons

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 498-504

  Lisch, Damon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRANSPOSONS; ZEA MAYS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0036833565     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(02)02347-6     Document Type: Review

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