Mobile genetic elements : protocols and genomic applications / edited by Wolfgang J. Miller and Pierre Capy.

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2004], ©2004.

xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Copy 1 Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Mobile genetic elements as natural tools for genome evolution / Wolfgang J. Miller and Pierre Capy -- Detection of transposable elements in Drosophila salivary gland polytene chromosomes by in situ hybridazation / Christian Biémont, Laurence Monti-Dedieu, and Françoise Lemeunier -- Fluorescent in situ hybridazation with transposable element probes to mitotic chromosomal heterochromatin of Drosophila / Patrizio Dimitri -- Computational analysis of individual Drosophila flies / Nikolai Junakovic -- Computational analysis of transposable element sequences / I. King Jordan and Nathan J. Bowen -- Biochemical analysis of long terminal repeat retrotransposons / Andreas Bachmair ... [et al.] -- Tn5 as a molecular genetics tool : in vitro transposition and the coupling of in vitro technologies with in vivo transposition / William S. Reznikoff, Igor Y. Goryshin, and Jerry J. Jendrisak -- Gene targeting in Drosophila / Gregory B. Gloor -- TE-based mutagenesis systems in plants : a gene family approach / Michiel Vandenbussche and Tom Gerats -- The use of double-stranded RNA to knock down specific gene activity / Mary K. Montgomery -- The application of LTR retrotransposons as molecular marker in plants / Alan H. Schulman, Andrew J. Flavell, and T.H. Noel Ellis -- MITE display / Alexandra M. Casa, Alexander Nagel, and Susan R. Wessler -- Retroposon mapping in molecular systematics / Norihiro Okada, Andrew M. Shedlock, and Masato Niakaido -- Transformation systems in insects / David A. O'Brochta and Peter W. Atkinson -- Transposable elements for transgenesis and insertional mutagenesis in vertebrates : a contemporary review of experimental strategies / Zoltán Ivics and Zsuzsanna Izsvák.

Includes bibliographical references and index.