Functional dissection of the Tol2 transposable element identified the minimal cis-sequence and a highly repetitive sequence in the subterminal region essential for transposition

Genetics

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 639-649

  Urasaki, Akihiro ^a   Morvan, Ghislaine ^a,c   Kawakami, Koichi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE VECTOR; GERM LINE; INVERTED REPEAT; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; TOL2 TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSPOSASES; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750433896     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.060244     Document Type: Article

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