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The making of a genomic parasite - the Mothra family sheds light on the evolution of Helitrons in plants

BACKGROUND: Helitrons are Class II transposons which are highly abundant in almost all eukaryotes. However, most Helitrons lack protein coding sequence. These non-autonomous elements are thought to hijack recombinase/helicase (RepHel) and possibly further enzymes from related, autonomous elements. I...

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Autores principales: Roffler, Stefan, Menardo, Fabrizio, Wicker, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26688693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13100-015-0054-4