A possible hot spot for Ac insertion in the maize P gene.

doi:10.1007/BF00290684

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A possible hot spot for Ac insertion in the maize P gene.

Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Nov 1991

Grotewold E, Athma P, Peterson T

Abstract excerpt

We have analyzed the footprints left by a single Ac transposable element during its intragenic transposition to different positions in the maize P gene. One site appears to have been visited twice by transposons, indicating that it may be an insertion hot spot. Implications of this finding for th...

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Alleles
Base Sequence
DNA
DNA Transposable Elements
Molecular Sequence Data
Zea mays

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