Insertion bias and purifying selection of retrotransposons in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

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BioMed Central

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An analysis of the distribution and age of LTR retrotransposons in the Arabidopsis genome revealed that Pseudoviridae insert randomly along the chromosome and have been recently active whereas Metaviridae were more active in the past and preferentially target heterochromatin.

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