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Evolutionary history of Oryza sativa LTR retrotransposons: a preliminary survey of the rice genome sequences.
BMC genomics - 2 Mar 2004
Gao Lizhi, McCarthy Eugene M, Ganko Eric W, McDonald John F
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BACKGROUND: LTR Retrotransposons transpose through reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate and are ubiquitous components of all eukaryotic genomes thus far examined. Plant genomes, in particular, have been found to be comprised of a remarkably high number of LTR retrotransposons. There is a significant body of direct and indirect evidence that LTR retrotransposons have contributed to gene and genome...
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