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Stepwise evolution of two giant composite LTR-retrotransposon-like elements DA and Xiao

BACKGROUND: We recently discovered two composite long terminal repeat (LTR)-retrotransposon-like elements which we named DA (~300 kb) and Xiao (~30 kb), meaning big and small in Chinese respectively. Xiao and DA (three types of DA identified) were found to have been derived from several donor sites...

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Autores principales: Li, Xuanyang, Slife, Jennifer, Patel, Neil, Zhao, Shaying
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19500371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-128