Havecker Ericka R, Gao Xiang, Voytas Daniel F
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Genome Biol. 2004;5(6):225. doi: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-6-225. Epub 2004 May 18.
Eukaryotic genomes are full of long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons. Although most LTR retrotransposons have common structural features and encode similar genes, there is nonetheless considerable diversity in their genomic organization, reflecting the different strategies they use to proliferate within the genomes of their hosts.
真核生物基因组中充满了长末端重复序列(LTR)逆转座子。尽管大多数LTR逆转座子具有共同的结构特征并编码相似的基因,但它们在基因组组织上仍存在相当大的差异,这反映了它们在宿主基因组中增殖所采用的不同策略。