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Functional and structural divergence of an unusual LTR retrotransposon family in plants.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Gao Dongying, Jimenez-Lopez Jose C, Iwata Aiko, Gill Navdeep, Jackson Scott A
Abstract excerpt
Retrotransposons with long terminal repeats (LTRs) more than 3 kb are not frequent in most eukaryotic genomes. Rice LTR retrotransposon, Retrosat2, has LTRs greater than 3.2 kb and two open reading frames (ORF): ORF1 encodes enzymes for retrotransposition whereas no function can be assigned to ORF0 as it is not found in any other organism. A variety of experimental and in silico approaches were used to determine...
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