Excision of the Tol2 transposable element of the medaka fish Oryzias latipes in Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis

Gene

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-98

  Kawakami, Koichi ^a   Imanaka, Kosuke ^b   Itoh, Mari ^b   Taira, Masanori ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

base pairs(s); bp; GFP; Green fluorescent protein; Medaka fish; PCR; polymerase chain reaction; Transposition; Transposon; Xenopus laevis; Xenopus Silurana tropicalis; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FISH; FROG; GENE LOSS; GENE STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; ORYZIAS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSPOSASES; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA; DANIO RERIO; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; SILURANA; TRANSPOSONS; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 4143119161     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.05.013     Document Type: Article

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