Idaten is a new cold-inducible transposon of Volvox carteri that can be used for tagging developmentally important genes

Genetics

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1343-1353

  Ueki, Noriko ^a   Nishii, Ichiro ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDATEN PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALGAL DNA; ALGAL PROTEIN; PLANT DNA;

ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; INVERTED REPEAT; JORDAN GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSPOSON; VOLVOX; VOLVOX CARTERI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

VOLVOX; VOLVOX CARTERI;

ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, ALGAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSASES; VOLVOX;

EID: 59449110059     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.094672     Document Type: Article

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