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SUBMITTER: Yang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2722332 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Lixing L Bennetzen Jeffrey L JL
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090721 31
Helitrons are recently discovered eukaryotic transposons that are predicted to amplify by a rolling-circle mechanism. They are present in most plant and animal species investigated, but were previously overlooked partly because they lack terminal repeats and do not create target site duplications. Helitrons are particularly abundant in flowering plants, where they frequently acquire, and sometimes express, 1 or more gene fragments. A structure-based search protocol was developed to find Helitron ...[more]