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SUBMITTER: White SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC45321 | biostudies-other | 1994 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
White S E SE Habera L F LF Wessler S R SR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19941201 25
The wx-K mutation results from the insertion of a copia-like retrotransposon into exon 12 of the maize waxy gene. This retrotransposon, named Hopscotch, has one long open reading frame encoding all of the domains required for transposition. Computer-assisted database searches using Hopscotch and other plant copia-like retroelements as query sequences have revealed that ancient, degenerate retrotransposon insertions are found in close proximity to 21 previously sequenced plant genes. The data sug ...[more]