LTR Retrotransposons

(Cappello, Handelsman et al. 1985; Geyer, Green et al. 1988; Bradshaw and McEntee 1989; Harrison, Geyer et al. 1989; Flavell, Alphey et al. 1990; Sandmeyer, Hansen et al. 1990; Ke, Irwin et al. 1997; McDonald, Matyunina et al. 1997; Jordan and McDonald 1998; Zhu, Zou et al. 1998; Kimura, Tosa et al. 2001; Kubo, Okazaki et al. 2001; Llorens and Marin 2001; Melayah, Bonnivard et al. 2001; Xie, Gai et al. 2001; Zhu, Dai et al. 2003; Dewannieux, Dupressoir et al. 2004; Goodwin and Poulter 2004; Bachman, Gelbart et al. 2005; Brandt, Veith et al. 2005; Lesage and Todeschini 2005; Madsen, Fukai et al. 2005; Perez-Alegre, Dubus et al. 2005; Poulter and Goodwin 2005; Sacerdot, Mercier et al. 2005; Semin and Il'in Iu 2005; Vicient, Kalendar et al. 2005; Vitte and Panaud 2005; Yano, Panbehi et al. 2005; Beliakova-Bethell, Beckham et al. 2006; DeBarry, Ganko et al. 2006; Desmarais, Belkhir et al. 2006; Lorenzi, Robledo et al. 2006; Mou, Kenny et al. 2006; Siol, Boutliliss et al. 2006; Chung, Siol et al. 2007; Dai, Xie et al. 2007; Macas and Neumann 2007; Maisonhaute, Ogereau et al. 2007; Rho, Choi et al. 2007; Romanish, Lock et al. 2007; Vitte, Panaud et al. 2007; Bae, Ahn et al. 2008; Brady, Schmidt et al. 2008; Eickbush and Jamburuthugoda 2008; Fukai, Dobrowolska et al. 2008; Labrador, Sha et al. 2008; Novikova, Mayorov et al. 2008; Saito, Keng et al. 2008; Servant, Pennetier et al. 2008; Stamenova, Dimitrov et al. 2008; Steinbauerova, Neumann et al. 2008; Sun, Dai et al. 2008; Wang and Liu 2008; Baucom, Estill et al. 2009; Cheng, Zhang et al. 2009; Kanazawa, Liu et al. 2009; Kuykendall, Shao et al. 2009; Minervini, Viggiano et al. 2009; Novikova 2009; Ungerer, Strakosh et al. 2009; Volff 2009; Vukich, Giordani et al. 2009; Kawakami, Strakosh et al. 2010; Konovalov, Goncharov et al. 2010; Makunin and Iurlova 2010; Mourier and Willerslev 2010; Novikova, Smyshlyaev et al. 2010; Ragupathy, Banks et al. 2010; Zedek, Smerda et al. 2010; de Setta, Van Sluys et al. 2011; Kalendar, Flavell et al. 2011; Kawakami, Dhakal et al. 2011; Muszewska, Hoffman-Sommer et al. 2011; Salina, Sergeeva et al. 2011; Tubio, Tojo et al. 2011; Zaratiegui, Vaughn et al. 2011; Gao, Chen et al. 2012; Kaneko-Ishino and Ishino 2012; Marsano, Leronni et al. 2012; Oz-Gleenberg, Herzig et al. 2012; Sun, Shepard et al. 2012; Tsukahara, Kawabe et al. 2012; Ungerer and Kawakami 2013)

 

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