Spontaneous excision of a large composite transposable element of Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1038/316081a0

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Spontaneous excision of a large composite transposable element of Drosophila melanogaster.

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

Chia W, McGill S, Karp R, Gubb D, Ashburner M

Abstract excerpt

The TE1 family of transposable elements (TEs) of Drosophila consists of unusually large transposons, cytologically visible in larval polytene chromosomes as one or more bands. They are composite elements, as their termini consist of foldback (FB) sequences which are themselves transposable. The l...

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Animals
Chromosome Deletion
DNA Transposable Elements
Drosophila melanogaster
Genetic Markers
Phenotype

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