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Circular RNAs mediated by transposons are associated with transcriptomic and phenotypic variation in maize.
The New phytologist - 1 Feb 2018
Chen Lu, Zhang Pei, Fan Yuan, Lu Qiong, Li Qing, Yan Jianbing, Muehlbauer Gary J, Schnable Patrick S, Dai Mingqiu, Li Lin
Abstract excerpt
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are covalently closed RNA molecules. Recent studies have shown that circRNAs can arise from the transcripts of transposons. Given the prevalence of transposons in the maize genome and dramatic genomic variation driven by transposons, we hypothesize that transposons in maize may be involved in the formation of circRNAs and further modulate phenotypic variation. We performed circRNA-Seq on...
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