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Genomic localization of endogenous mobile CACTA family transposons in natural variants of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Jan 2004
Miura A, Kato M, Watanabe K, Kawabe A, Kotani H, Kakutani T
Abstract excerpt
The differentiation between gene-rich and transposon-rich (gene-poor) regions is a common feature of plant genomes. This may be due to preferential integration of transposons into gene-poor regions or may be due to purifying selection against transposon insertion into gene-rich regions. We examined the distribution of a low-copy-number mobile subfamily of Arabidopsis CACTA transposons in the genomes of 19 natural...
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