MsqTc3, a Tc3-like transposon in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti

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  • 1Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA.

Insect Molecular Biology
|March 8, 2002
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