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LTR retrotransposons in rice (Oryza sativa, L.): recent burst amplifications followed by rapid DNA loss

Clémentine Vitte1,2,4 email, Olivier Panaud3 email and Hadi Quesneville2 email

Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France

Laboratoire Bioinformatique et Génomique, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France

Laboratoire Génétique et Développement des Plantes, Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France

Bennetzen laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

author email corresponding author email

BMC Genomics 2007, 8:218doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-218

Published: 6 July 2007

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Additional file 1:

Sequences of the 41 LTR retrotransposon reference copies. Sequences can be uploaded in fasta format from the "Vitte_et_al_reference_copies.txt" text file. Note that reference copies are derived from genomic copies. Their LTR sequences have been homogenized by replacing the two LTR sequences by the sequence of the 5' LTR, to avoid detection problems, except for Osr9, Osr10, Osr11, Osr16, Osr18, Osr23, and Osr31 for which the position of the LTR was ambiguous (see text and Table 1 for details).

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