Recent transposition of yabusame, a novel piggyBac-like transposable element in the genome of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Genome

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 585-593

  Daimon, Takaaki ^a   Mitsuhiro, Masao ^a   Katsuma, Susumu ^a   Abe, Hiroaki ^b   Mita, Kazuei ^c   Shimada, Toru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx; Insect; Piggybac; Transgenesis; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, INSECT; GENOME, INSECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPODOPTERA; TRANSPOSASES;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77955543000     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G10-035     Document Type: Article

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