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Active miniature transposons from a plant genome and its nonrecombining Y chromosome.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2008
Bergero R, Forrest A, Charlesworth D
Abstract excerpt
Mechanisms involved in eroding fitness of evolving Y chromosomes have been the focus of much theoretical and empirical work. Evolving Y chromosomes are expected to accumulate transposable elements (TEs), but it is not known whether such accumulation contributes to their genetic degeneration. Among TEs, miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements are nonautonomous DNA transposons, often inserted in introns and...
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