Publication Date:
1982-10-22
Description:
Recombinant DNA carrying the 3-kilobase transposable element was injected into Drosophila embryos of a strain that lacked such elements. Under optimum conditions, half of the surviving embryos showed evidence of P element-induced mutations in a fraction of their progeny. Direct analysis of the DNA of strains derived from such flies showed them to contain from one to five intact 3-kilobase P elements located at a wide variety of chromosomal sites. DNA sequences located outside the P element on the injected DNA were not transferred. Thus P elements can efficiently and selectively transpose from extrachromosomal DNA to the DNA of germ line chromosomes in Drosophila embryos. These observations provide the basis for efficient DNA-mediated gene transfer in Drosophila.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Spradling, A C -- Rubin, G M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Oct 22;218(4570):341-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6289435" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Base Sequence
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Chromosome Mapping
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*DNA Transposable Elements
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Drosophila melanogaster/*genetics
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Female
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Genes
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Genetic Linkage
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Hybridization, Genetic
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Male
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*Mutation
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Nucleic Acid Hybridization
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Recombination, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
