A novel transposition system in Drosophila melanogaster depending on the Stalker mobile genetic element.

doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1990.tb07370.x

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A novel transposition system in Drosophila melanogaster depending on the Stalker mobile genetic element.

The EMBO journal - 1 Jul 1990

Georgiev P G, Kiselev S L, Simonova O B, Gerasimova T I

Abstract excerpt

Crosses between the Drosophila melanogaster y2sc1waG strain or some of its derivatives and the FM4 strain yielded insertional mutagenesis with a frequency of 10(-3)-10(-4). The system differs in several respects from the known cases of hybrid dysgenesis: (i) it does not depend on the direction of...

Topics

Animals
Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes
Cloning, Molecular
Crosses, Genetic
DNA Transposable Elements
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genomic Library
Male
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Restriction Mapping
X Chromosome

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