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CACTA transposons in Triticeae. A diverse family of high-copy repetitive elements.
Plant physiology - 1 May 2003
Wicker Thomas, Guyot Romain, Yahiaoui Nabila, Keller Beat
Abstract excerpt
In comparison with retrotransposons, which comprise the majority of the Triticeae genomes, very few class 2 transposons have been described in these genomes. Based on the recent discovery of a local accumulation of CACTA elements at the Glu-A3 loci in the two wheat species Triticum monococcum and Triticum durum, we performed a database search for additional such elements in Triticeae spp. A combination of BLAST...
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