Keith,,I do not know about those other transposons, but I have targeted En
for the past 5 decades and have a over a 1000 inserts, if I get your
question right..Peter A Peterson
At 03:20 PM 2/16/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear All,
> Given the predicated ancient tetraploid nature of the maize
>genome, I am interested in finding out how often an insertion into a gene (via
>Ac or Spm or Mu transposon tagging) leads to a detectable phenotype. Our very
>preliminary data suggests that we see a phenotype more often than we would
>predict from the known number of single copy genes in the maize genome.
>Please note that our calculations already assume that Ac, Spm or Mu hits
>transcribed sequences 95% of the time.
>>Any help would be appreciated
>>Keith Edwards
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