<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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Language: | English |
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BMC
2005-05-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/5/30 |