High levels of recombination induced by homologous P elements in Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1007/BF00261685

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High levels of recombination induced by homologous P elements in Drosophila melanogaster.

Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Mar 1991

Sved J A, Blackman L M, Gilchrist A S, Engels W R

Abstract excerpt

P element transposons in Drosophila melanogaster are capable of mobilizing incomplete P elements elsewhere in the genome, and of inducing recombination. This recombination is usually only of the order of 1% or less. We show that two P elements, located at exactly homologous sites, induce levels o...

Topics

Animals
Blotting, Southern
Crosses, Genetic
DNA Repair
DNA Transposable Elements
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genotype
Male
Phenotype
Recombination, Genetic
Restriction Mapping
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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