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Using rice to understand the origin and amplification of miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs)
Ning Jiang1, Cédric Feschotte, Xiaoyu Zhang
1Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
|March 9, 2004
Abstract:
Recent studies of rice miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs), largely fueled by the availability of genomic sequence, have provided answers to many of the outstanding questions regarding the existence of active MITEs, their source of transposases (TPases) and their chromosomal distribution. Although many questions remain about MITE origins and mode of amplification, data accumulated over the past two years have led to the formulation of testable models.