The Diversity of LTR Retrotransposons

Overview

Journal Genome Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2004 Jun 10

PMID 15186483

Citations 131

Authors

Ericka R Havecker

Xiang Gao

Daniel F Voytas

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Abstract

Eukaryotic genomes are full of long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons. Although most LTR retrotransposons have common structural features and encode similar genes, there is nonetheless considerable diversity in their genomic organization, reflecting the different strategies they use to proliferate within the genomes of their hosts.

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