Complete sequence of the 10.3 kb silkworm Attacus ricini rDNA repeat, determination of the transcriptional initiation site and functional analysis of the intergenic spacer

DNA Sequence - Journal of DNA Sequencing and Mapping

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-101

  Wang, Suiquan ^a   Zhao, Mujun ^a   Li, Tsaiping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Attacus ricini; Intergenic spacer; RRNA genes; Silkworm; Transcription initiation site

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BOMBYX; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA POLYMERASE I; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ATTACUS RICINI; BOMBYX MORI; CYNTHIA; INVERTEBRATA; SAMIA; SAMIA CYNTHIA RICINI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0037381840     PISSN: 10425179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042517031000072089     Document Type: Article

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