LTR-retrotransposon dynamics in common fig (Ficus carica L.) genome

Abstract Background Long Terminal Repeat retrotransposons (LTR-REs) are repetitive DNA sequences that constitute a large part of the genome. The improvement of sequencing technologies and sequence assembling strategies has achieved genome sequences with much greater reliability than those of the pas...

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Main Authors: Alberto Vangelisti, Samuel Simoni, Gabriele Usai, Maria Ventimiglia, Lucia Natali, Andrea Cavallini, Flavia Mascagni, Tommaso Giordani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:BMC Plant Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-021-02991-x