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Hairpin elements, the first family of foldback transposons (FTs) in Arabidopsis thaliana

J Adé1, F J Belzile

  • 1Département de phytologie, Pavillon C.-E. Marchand, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Canada.

The Plant Journal : for Cell and Molecular Biology
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