LTR retrotransposons reveal recent extensive inter-subspecies nonreciprocal recombination in Asian cultivated rice

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Long Terminal Repeats retrotransposons (LTR elements) are ubiquitous Eukaryotic transposable elements (TEs). They are considered to be one of the major forces underlying plant genome evolution. Because of relatively high evolutionary...

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Main Authors: Xu Zhao, Wang Hao, Yu Hongjie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-11-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/565