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SUBMITTER: Xu HE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3722987 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Hong-En HE Zhang Hua-Hao HH Xia Tian T Han Min-Jin MJ Shen Yi-Hong YH Zhang Ze Z
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation 20130725
The silkworm, Bombyx mori, is one of the major insect model organisms, and its draft and fine genome sequences became available in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Transposable elements (TEs) constitute ~40% of the silkworm genome. To better understand the roles of TEs in organization, structure and evolution of the silkworm genome, we used a combination of de novo, structure-based and homology-based approaches for identification of the silkworm TEs and identified 1308 silkworm TE families. These TE ...[more]