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Abundant and species-specific DINE-1 transposable elements in 12 Drosophila genomes.
Genome biology - 1 Jan 2008
Yang Hsiao-Pei, Barbash Daniel A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are non-autonomous DNA-mediated transposable elements (TEs) derived from autonomous TEs. Unlike in many plants or animals, MITEs and other types of DNA-mediated TEs were previously thought to be either rare or absent in Drosophila. Most other TE families in Drosophila exist at low or intermediate copy number (around < 100 per genome). RESULTS: We...
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