<it>Ginger </it>DNA transposons in eukaryotes and their evolutionary relationships with long terminal repeat retrotransposons

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In eukaryotes, long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons such as <it>Copia, BEL </it>and <it>Gypsy </it>integrate their DNA copies into the host genome using a particular type of DDE transposase called integ...

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Main Authors: Bao Weidong, Kapitonov Vladimir V, Jurka Jerzy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-01-01
Series:Mobile DNA
Online Access:http://www.mobilednajournal.com/content/1/1/3