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ID103836
Property Percent of genome that is DNA-Transposons
Organism Rice Oryza sativa
Value 1.92
Range
Units Percent
Reference Li W, Zhang P, Fellers JP, Friebe B, Gill BS. Sequence composition, organization, and evolution of the core Triticeae genome. Plant J. 2004 Nov40(4):500-11
Reference PubMed ID 15500466
Entered By Uri M
Primary SourceMao L, Wood TC, Yu Y, Budiman MA, Tomkins J, Woo S, Sasinowski M, Presting G, Frisch D, Goff S, Dean RA, Wing RA. Rice transposable elements: a survey of 73,000 sequence-tagged-connectors. Genome Res. 2000 Jul10(7):982-90.
Primary Source PubMed ID 10899147
Measurement MethodThe rice genome (430 Mb) consists of 16% TEs (Transposable Elements) in a proportion of 88% retroelements and 12% DNA transposons. Multiplying 16% by 0.12 gives 1.92% DNA transposons out of genome
Keywords retrotransposons, transposons, junk DNA, non coding,
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Date Added Apr 11, 2009 12:41 PM
Date Edited Apr 12, 2009 11:55 AM
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