Identification and Characterisation of five novel Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs) in amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae)

As the sister group to vertebrates, amphioxus is consistently used as a model of genome evolution for understanding the invertebrate/vertebrate transition. The amphioxus genome has not undergone massive duplications like those in the vertebrates or disruptive rearrangements like in the genome of Cio...

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Main Authors: Osborne, PW., Luke, GN., Holland, PWH., Ferrier, DEK.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Ivyspring International Publisher 2006
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1458432/