Functional and Structural Divergence of an Unusual LTR Retrotransposon Family in Plants

Retrotransposons with long terminal repeats (LTRs) more than 3 kb are not frequent in most eukaryotic genomes. Rice LTR retrotransposon, Retrosat2, has LTRs greater than 3.2 kb and two open reading frames (ORF): ORF1 encodes enzymes for retrotransposition whereas no function can be assigned to ORF0...

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Main Authors: Gao, Dongying, Jimenez-Lopez, Jose C., Iwata, Aiko, Gill, Navdeep, Jackson, Scott A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485330/