The GATE retrotransposon in Drosophila melanogaster: Mobility in heterochromatin and aspects of its expression in germline tissues

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 269, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 234-242

  Kogan, G L ^a   Tulin, A V ^a,c   Aravin, A A ^a   Abramov, Yu A ^a   Kalmykova, A I ^a   Maisonhaute, C ^b   Gvozdev, V A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Heterochromatin; Retrotransposon; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; GATE RETROTRANSPOSON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMOZYGOSITY; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMAN ECHOVIRUS 1; INSECTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER SUBGROUP; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037942899     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-003-0827-1     Document Type: Article

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