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Computational And Experimental Analyses Of Retrotransposon-Associated Minisatellite Dnas In The Soybean Genome, Lauren S. Mogil, Kamil Slowikowski, Howard M. Laten
Computational And Experimental Analyses Of Retrotransposon-Associated Minisatellite Dnas In The Soybean Genome, Lauren S. Mogil, Kamil Slowikowski, Howard M. Laten
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BACKGROUND:
Retrotransposons are mobile DNA elements that spread through genomes via the action of element-encoded reverse transcriptases. They are ubiquitous constituents of most eukaryotic genomes, especially those of higher plants. The pericentromeric regions of soybean (Glycine max) chromosomes contain >3,200 intact copies of the Gmr9/GmOgre retrotransposon. Between the 3' end of the coding region and the long terminal repeat, this retrotransposon family contains a polymorphic minisatellite region composed of five distinct, interleaved minisatellite families. To better understand the possible role and origin of retrotransposon-associated minisatellites, a computational project to map and physically characterize all members of these families in the …