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Burst expansion, distribution and diversification of MITEs in the silkworm genome.
BMC genomics - 27 Sept 2010
Han Min-Jin, Shen Yi-Hong, Gao Ying-Hui, Chen Li-Yong, Xiang Zhong-Huai, Zhang Ze
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are widespread in plants and animals. Although silkworm (Bombyx mori) has a large amount of and a variety of transposable elements, the genome-wide information of the silkworm MITEs is unknown. RESULTS: We used structure-based an...
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