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Resistance to gap repair of the transposon Tam3 in Antirrhinum majus: a role of the end regions.
Genetics - 1 Dec 1999
Yamashita S, Takano-Shimizu T, Kitamura K, Mikami T, Kishima Y
Abstract excerpt
The extremely homogeneous organization of the transposon family Tam3 in Antirrhinum majus is in sharp contrast to the heterogeneity of the copies constituting many other transposon families. To address the issue of the Tam3 structural uniformity, we examined two possibilities: (1) recent invasion of Tam3 and (2) failure of gap repair, which is involved in conversion from autonomous forms to defective forms. The...
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