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SUBMITTER: Tsukahara S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3323881 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tsukahara Sayuri S Kawabe Akira A Kobayashi Akie A Ito Tasuku T Aizu Tomoyuki T Shin-i Tadasu T Toyoda Atsushi A Fujiyama Asao A Tarutani Yoshiaki Y Kakutani Tetsuji T
Genes & development 20120319 7
The plant genome evolves with rapid proliferation of LTR-type retrotransposons, which is associated with their clustered accumulation in gene-poor regions, such as centromeres. Despite their major role for plant genome evolution, no mobile LTR element with targeted integration into gene-poor regions has been identified in plants. Here, we report such targeted integrations de novo. We and others have previously shown that an ATCOPIA93 family retrotransposon in Arabidopsis thaliana is mobilized wh ...[more]