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Analysis of plant LTR-retrotransposons at the fine-scale family level reveals individual molecular patterns.
BMC genomics - 16 Apr 2012
Domingues Douglas S, Cruz Guilherme M Q, Metcalfe Cushla J, Nogueira Fabio T S, Vicentini Renato, Alves Cristiane de S, Van Sluys Marie-Anne
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BACKGROUND: Sugarcane is an important crop worldwide for sugar production and increasingly, as a renewable energy source. Modern cultivars have polyploid, large complex genomes, with highly unequal contributions from ancestral genomes. Long Terminal Repeat retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) are the single largest components of most plant genomes and can substantially impact the genome in many ways. It is therefore...
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