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The diversity of retrotransposons and the properties of their reverse transcriptases

A number of abundant mobile genetic elements called retrotransposons reverse transcribe RNA to generate DNA for insertion into eukaryotic genomes. Four major classes of retrotransposons are described here. First, the long-terminal-repeat (LTR) retrotransposons have similar structures and mechanisms...

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Main Authors: Eickbush, Thomas H., Jamburuthugoda, Varuni K.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695964/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18261821
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2007.12.010
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