Precise excision of the retrotransposon gypsy from the forked and cut loci in a genetically unstable D. melanogaster strain.

doi:10.1093/nar/22.22.4641

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Precise excision of the retrotransposon gypsy from the forked and cut loci in a genetically unstable D. melanogaster strain.

Nucleic acids research - 11 Nov 1994

Kuzin A B, Lyubomirskaya N V, Khudaibergenova B M, Ilyin Y V, Kim A I

Abstract excerpt

The genetically unstable Mutator Strain of D. melanogaster is characterised by a high frequency of spontaneous mutations and their reversions. Three forked mutants were obtained independently and several reversions arose spontaneously with frequency of 10(-3)-10(-4). The sites of integration and...

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Animals
Base Sequence
Crosses, Genetic
Drosophila melanogaster
Exons
Female
Genes, Insect
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutagenesis
Mutation
Retroelements
Sequence Analysis, DNA
X Chromosome

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