Nomenclature of Transposable Elements in Prokaryotesl

At the Cold Spring Harbor meeting on DNA insertions, a committee was elected to draft a set of rules for nomenclature (Campbell et al., 1977), These rules were based on discussions held at the meeting and on previously accepted conventions for the Mu prophage (Howe and Bade, 1975), for bacterial plasmids (Novick et al., 1976), for bacteriophage A (Hershey, 197 1), and for bacterial genetics (Demerec et al., 1966). This article is a revised version of the original report (Campbell et al., 1977)