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Differential excision patterns of the En-transposable element at the A2 locus in maize relate to the insertion site.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Sept 2005
Chang Ru-Ying, Chopra Surinder, Peterson Peter A
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Defined mutant alleles with resident transposons display characteristic patterns of germinal and somatic reversion, and heritable changes in the timing and frequency of reversions, which have been termed "change of state" by McClintock, constantly arise. Several mechanisms were proposed to account for these changes. They may be ascribed to the structure and composition of the elements themselves (composition...
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