Transcriptional analysis of the HeT-A retrotransposon in mutant and wild type stocks reveals high sequence variability at Drosophila telomeres and other unusual features

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Piñeyro, David ^a   López Panadès, Elisenda ^a   Lucena Pérez, María ^a   Casacuberta, Elena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE DOSAGE; HET A GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; MUTATION;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GAG PROTEIN; HET A GAG PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HET-A GAG PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MUTATION; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE;

EID: 81555234530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-573     Document Type: Article

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