The Mechanism of Ac/Ds Transposition

Plant Transposons and Genome Dynamics in Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 41-59

  Peterson, Thomas ^a   Zhang, Jianbo ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ac Ds element transposition; Ac Ds transposition mechanism; Alternative transposition; cis trans, on Ac Ds transposition; Ds formation from Ac; Enigmatic Ac dosage effect; Molecular characterization; Reversed ends transposition; Sister chromatid transposition; Standard versus alternative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884602000     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118500156.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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