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Spontaneous germline excision of Tol1, a DNA-based transposable element naturally occurring in the medaka fish genome.
Genome - 1 Apr 2014
Watanabe Kohei, Koga Hajime, Nakamura Kodai, Fujita Akiko, Hattori Akimasa, Matsuda Masaru, Koga Akihiko
Abstract excerpt
DNA-based transposable elements are ubiquitous constituents of eukaryotic genomes. Vertebrates are, however, exceptional in that most of their DNA-based elements appear to be inactivated. The Tol1 element of the medaka fish, Oryzias latipes, is one of the few elements for which copies containing an undamaged gene have been found. Spontaneous transposition of this element in somatic cells has previously been...
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