Positive association between copia transposition rate and copy number in Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1098/rspb.1996.0122

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Positive association between copia transposition rate and copy number in Drosophila melanogaster.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Jul 1996

Nuzhdin S V, Pasyukova E G, Mackay T F

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Rates of copia transposition were determined directly, by cytological in situ hybridization analysis of sites of copia insertion in progeny of males from sublines of an inbred strain with different genomic copia copy numbers. Copia transposition rate was positively and nonlinearly associated with...

Topics

Analysis of Variance
Animals
Cell Nucleus
Crosses, Genetic
DNA Transposable Elements
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
In Situ Hybridization
Male
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Viruses

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