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Retrotransposon components of genome

Range	Table - link
Organism	Corn Zea mays
Reference	Phillip Sanmiguel and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Evidence that a Recent Increase in Maize Genome Size was Caused by the Massive Amplification of Intergene Retrotransposons, Annals of Botany 82 (Supplement A): 37-44, 1998
Method	A recipient strain was constructed by plating 1 ml of an overnight culture of DH5a (BRL) on media containing 20ug*ml^-1 of rifampicin. A DMSO stock was made of one of the resulting colonies and this strain was named DH5arifR.
Comments	Estimated percent of retrotransposons out of total genome 49-78 Percent.
Entered by	Uri M
ID	103832