Article
Insertion and excision of the transposable element mariner in Drosophila.
Genetics - 1 May 1990
Bryan G, Garza D, Hartl D
Abstract excerpt
The transposable element mariner is active in both germline and somatic cells of Drosophila mauritiana. Activity of the element is greatly enhanced in the presence of Mos1, a genetic factor identified as an autonomous copy of mariner. A strain of D. mauritiana containing Mos1 and other copies of...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Drosophila
- Female
- Germ Cells
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Restriction Mapping