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SUBMITTER: Atkinson PW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC47636 | biostudies-other | 1993 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Atkinson P W PW Warren W D WD O'Brochta D A DA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19931001 20
The hobo transposable element from Drosophila melanogaster was found to be capable of excision, resulting in donor sites unlike those reported for any other transposable element currently known in animals. These empty sites most closely resemble those left by the transposable elements Ac and Tam3 in Zea mays and Antirrhinum majus, respectively. Like Ac and Tam3, the hobo element was found to function in a distantly related species, in this case the housefly Musca domestica. Hobo excision in M. d ...[more]