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A mariner-like element with a 5' lesion in Drosophila simulans.
Genetica - 1 Nov 2003
Ogura Keiji, Yamamoto Masa-Toshi
Abstract excerpt
The unstable white-S2 (wS2) allele of the white gene occurred spontaneously in the S2 strain of Drosophila simulans. This mutation was caused by insertion of the submariner element, a mariner-like element with an abnormal tandem duplication of the 5' inverted terminal repeat (ITR). Although it has an incomplete ITR, submariner excises efficiently. The rate of somatic reversion, estimated by the number of...
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