Extreme structural heterogeneity among the members of a maize retrotransposon family.

Abstract excerpt

A few families of retrotransposons characterized by the presence of long terminal repeats (LTRs) have amplified relatively recently in maize and account for >50% of the genome. Surprisingly, none of these elements have been shown to cause a single mutation. In contrast, most of the retrotransposo...

Topics

• Amino Acid Sequence
• Genetic Variation
• Genome, Plant
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutation
• Retroelements
• Sequence Alignment
• Species Specificity
• Zea mays