Precise excision of long terminal repeats of the gypsy (mdg4) retrotransposon of Drosophila melanogaster detected in Escherichia coli cells is explained by its integrase function

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1398-1404

  Nefedova, L N ^a   Ljubomirskaya, N V ^b   Ilyin, Yu V ^b   Kim, A I ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33845900694     PISSN: 10227954     EISSN: 16083369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1022795406120064     Document Type: Article

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