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The maize genome contains a helitron insertion.
The Plant cell - 1 Feb 2003
Lal Shailesh K, Giroux Michael J, Brendel Volker, Vallejos C Eduardo, Hannah L Curtis
Abstract excerpt
The maize mutation sh2-7527 was isolated in a conventional maize breeding program in the 1970s. Although the mutant contains foreign sequences within the gene, the mutation is not attributable to an interchromosomal exchange or to a chromosomal inversion. Hence, the mutation was caused by an insertion. Sequences at the two Sh2 borders have not been scrambled or mutated, suggesting that the insertion is not caused...
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