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Unexpected consequences of a sudden and massive transposon amplification on rice gene expression.
Nature - 22 Oct 2009
Naito Ken, Zhang Feng, Tsukiyama Takuji, Saito Hiroki, Hancock C Nathan, Richardson Aaron O, Okumoto Yutaka, Tanisaka Takatoshi, Wessler Susan R
Abstract excerpt
High-copy-number transposable elements comprise the majority of eukaryotic genomes where they are major contributors to gene and genome evolution. However, it remains unclear how a host genome can survive a rapid burst of hundreds or thousands of insertions because such bursts are exceedingly rare in nature and therefore difficult to observe in real time. In a previous study we reported that in a few rice strains...
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