Large-scale transcriptome data reveals transcriptional activity of fission yeast LTR retrotransposons

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Retrotransposons are transposable elements that proliferate within eukaryotic genomes through a process involving reverse transcription. The numbers of retrotransposons within genomes and differences between closely related species m...

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Main Authors: Willerslev Eske, Mourier Tobias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-03-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/167