Genetic effects of injection of Rous sarcoma virus DNA into polar plasm of early Drosophila melanogaster embryos.

doi:10.1038/311392a0

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Genetic effects of injection of Rous sarcoma virus DNA into polar plasm of early Drosophila melanogaster embryos.

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

Gazaryan K G, Nabirochkin S D, Tatosyan A G, Shakhbazyan A K, Shibanova E N

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Retroviral proviruses and the transposable elements of eukaryotic genomes are structurally similar. The biological significance of eukaryotic transposable elements has not been examined extensively but it is known that, like prokaryotic transposons, these elements can induce mutations in adjacent...

Topics

Animals
Avian Sarcoma Viruses
DNA
DNA, Viral
Drosophila melanogaster
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Female
Microinjections
Mutation
Phenotype
Plasmids

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