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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on March 2, 2009.
Genetics, Vol. 182, 399-402, May 2009, Copyright © 2009
doi:10.1534/genetics.109.101527
Excision of Helitron Transposons in Maize
Yubin Li* and
Hugo K. Dooner*,
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* Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855 and Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
1 Corresponding author: Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855.
E-mail: dooner{at}waksman.rutgers.edu
Helitrons are novel transposons discovered by bioinformatic analysis of eukaryotic genome sequences. They are believed to move by rolling circle (RC) replication because their predicted transposases are homologous to those of bacterial RC transposons. We report here evidence of somatic Helitron excision in maize, an unexpected finding suggesting that Helitrons can exhibit an excisive mode of transposition.
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