Cloning and characterization of a transposable-like repeat in the heterochromatin of the darkling beetle Misolampus goudoti

Genome

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 769-774

  Pons, Joan ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beetle; Heterochromatin; MITE; Satellite DNA; Telomere; Tenebrionidae; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE PSTI; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA GUANCHE; INSECTA; MISOLAMPUS GOUDOTI; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 5144231913     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G04-019     Document Type: Article

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