The Tol1 element of the medaka fish, a member of the hAT transposable element family, jumps in Caenorhabditis elegans

Heredity

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 222-227

  Kodama, K ^a   Takagi, S ^a   Koga, A ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Evolution; hAT family; Host factors; Transposition

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA;

CHROMOSOME; GENOME; NEMATODE; PLASMID; TELEOST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PLASMID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RECOMBINANT; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZIAS; PLASMIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEUTEROSTOMIA; MAMMALIA; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE; PROTOSTOMIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 50049134320     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.47     Document Type: Article

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