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Bursts of retrotransposition reproduced in Arabidopsis.
Nature - 17 Sept 2009
Tsukahara Sayuri, Kobayashi Akie, Kawabe Akira, Mathieu Olivier, Miura Asuka, Kakutani Tetsuji
Abstract excerpt
Retrotransposons, which proliferate by reverse transcription of RNA intermediates, comprise a major portion of plant genomes. Plants often change the genome size and organization during evolution by rapid proliferation and deletion of long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons. Precise transposon sequences throughout the Arabidopsis thaliana genome and the trans-acting mutations affecting epigenetic states make...
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