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LTR retrotransposon landscape in Medicago truncatula: more rapid removal than in rice

Hao Wang* email and Jin-Song Liu* email

T-life Research Center, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Genomics 2008, 9:382doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-382

Published: 10 August 2008

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Sequences of 526 full-length LTR elements identified in this study. this file contains the sequences of all full-length LTR elements identified in this study.

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Additional file 2:

Distribution of the length of Copia and Gypsy superfamilies. this file contains two figures showing the distributions of the full-length and LTR length of Mt elements.

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Domain structure and PBS usage of LTR families. this file provides the information to relate the LTR families with their protein domain structures and reverse transcription primer tRNAs.

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Phylogeny of Copia- and Gypsy-like LTR families. this file contains the phylogenetic analysis of Copia and Gypsy superfamilies.

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Phylogenetic position of Mtr81. the RT sequence of Mtr81 do not belongs to Copia or Gypsy superfamily. It is placed as a third branch the phylogenetic tree.

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Insertion dates of 8 abundant LTR families. this file contains a figure showing the distribution of the insertion time of 8 abundant LTR families.

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