<it>Diaspora</it>, a large family of <it>Ty3</it>-<it>gypsy </it>retrotransposons in <it>Glycine max</it>, is an envelope-less member of an endogenous plant retrovirus lineage

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The chromosomes of higher plants are littered with retrotransposons that, in many cases, constitute as much as 80% of plant genomes. Long terminal repeat retrotransposons have been especially successful colonizers of the chromosomes...

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Main Authors: Das Arpita, Panbehi Bahman, Yano Sho T, Laten Howard M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-05-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/5/30