Evidence for a prokaryotic insertion-sequence contamination in eukaryotic sequences registered in different databases

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 48-53

  Astua Monge, G ^a   Lyznik, A ^b   Jones, V ^a   Mackenzie, S A ^b   Vallejos, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

BAC libraries; IS10; Tn10

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; CONTAMINATION; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; VIRUSES;

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOMES (BAC); INSERTION SEQUENCES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HOMO SAPIENS; MELANOGASTER; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0347297279     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001220200005     Document Type: Article

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