Curiously composite structures of a retrotransposon and a complex repeat associated with chromosome ends of Rhynchosciara americana (Diptera: Sciaridae)

Chromosome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 587-598

  Madalena, Christiane Rodriguez Gutierrez ^a   Fernandes, Thiago ^a   Villasante, Alfredo ^b   Gorab, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Heterochromatin; Retrotransposons; Rhynchosciara; Subtelomeres; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; DNA; RETROPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROBE; DROSOPHILA; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETROPOSON; RHYNCHOSCIARA AMERICANA; SALIVARY GLAND; TELOMERE; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; DIPTERA; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; DIPTERA; DNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; SALIVARY GLANDS; TELOMERE;

DIPTERA; NEMATOCERA; RHYNCHOSCIARA; RHYNCHOSCIARA AMERICANA; SCIARIDAE;

EID: 77956933259     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-010-9143-x     Document Type: Article

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