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Transposable elements and the plant pan-genomes.
Current opinion in plant biology - 1 Apr 2007
Morgante Michele, De Paoli Emanuele, Radovic Slobodanka
Abstract excerpt
The comparative sequencing of several grass genomes has revealed that transposable elements are largely responsible for extensive variation in both intergenic and local genic content, not only between closely related species but also among individuals within a species. These observations indicate that a single genome sequence might not reflect the entire genomic complement of a species, and prompted us to...
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