the grants from Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou City (Grant No.201510010055);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2015A030313390);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31672357).
Silkworm mutants are valuable resources for both transgenic breeding and gene discovery. PiggyBac-based random insertional mutagenesis has been widely used in gene functional studies. In order to discover genes involv...
In this paper, a highly conservedpiggyBac-like sequence, designated as McrPLE was cloned from a lepidopteran insect, Macdunnoughia crassisigna. It is 2 472 bp long in full length with a single open reading frame and e...