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Mobilization of transposons by a mutation abolishing full DNA methylation in Arabidopsis.
Nature - 10 May 2001
Miura A, Yonebayashi S, Watanabe K, Toyama T, Shimada H, Kakutani T
Abstract excerpt
A major component of the large genomes of higher plants and vertebrates comprises transposable elements and their derivatives, which potentially reduce the stability of the genome. It has been proposed that methylation of cytosine residues may suppress transposition, but experimental evidence for this has been limited. Reduced methylation of repeat sequences results from mutations in the Arabidopsis gene DDM1...
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