Identification of two mariner-like elements in the genome of the mosquito Ochlerotatus atropalpus

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 377-386

  Zakharkin, Stanislav O ^a   Willis, Rebecca L ^b   Litvinova, Oksana V ^c   Jinwal, Umesh K ^c   Headley, Violetta V ^d   Beneš, Helen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AatHex 1.2, hexamerin 1.2 gene of Aedes atropalpus; bp, base pair; ITRs, inverted terminal repeats; Mariner; Mosquito; Ochlerotatus atropalpus; ORF, open reading frame; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; Phylogeny; RT, room temperature; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHLEROTATUS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCHLEROTATUS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSASES;

CECROPIA; OCHLEROTATUS ATROPALPUS;

EID: 1842487313     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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