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The mop1 (mediator of paramutation1) mutant progressively reactivates one of the two genes encoded by the MuDR transposon in maize.
Genetics - 1 Jan 2006
Woodhouse Margaret Roth, Freeling Michael, Lisch Damon
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Transposons make up a sizable portion of most genomes, and most organisms have evolved mechanisms to silence them. In maize, silencing of the Mutator family of transposons is associated with methylation of the terminal inverted repeats (TIRs) surrounding the autonomous element and loss of mudrA expression (the transposase) as well as mudrB (a gene involved in insertional activity). We have previously reported...
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