Transposable element (TE) display and rapid detection of TE insertion polymorphism in the Anopheles gambiae species complex

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 211-216

  Biedler, J ^a   Qi, Y ^a   Holligan, D ^b   Della Torre, A ^c   Wessler, S ^b   Tu, Zhijian ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disease vector; Genome; Interspersed repeats; MITEs; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; INSECT VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; GAMBIAE SPECIES COMPLEX; ILEX COOKII; INSECTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0038660782     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2003.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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