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TED, an autonomous and rare maize transposon of the mutator superfamily with a high gametophytic excision frequency.
The Plant cell - 1 Sept 2013
Li Yubin, Harris Linda, Dooner Hugo K
Abstract excerpt
Mutator (Mu) elements, one of the most diverse superfamilies of DNA transposons, are found in all eukaryotic kingdoms, but are particularly numerous in plants. Most of the present knowledge on the transposition behavior of this superfamily comes from studies of the maize (Zea mays) Mu elements, whose transposition is mediated by the autonomous Mutator-Don Robertson (MuDR) element. Here, we describe the maize...
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