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A candidate autonomous version of the wheat MITE Hikkoshi is present in the rice genome.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Jun 2005
Saito M, Yonemaru J, Ishikawa G, Nakamura T
Abstract excerpt
A miniature inverted-repeat transposable element (MITE), designated as Hikkoshi, was previously identified in the null Wx-A1 allele of Turkish bread wheat lines. This MITE is 165 bp in size and has 12-bp terminal inverted repeats (TIRs) flanked by 8-bp target site duplications (TSDs). Southern and PCR analyses demonstrated the presence of multiple copies of Hikkoshi in the wheat genome. Database searches...
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