Identification and Evolution of the Silkworm Helitrons and their Contribution to Transcripts

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Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

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Burst expansion, distribution and diversification of MITEs in the silkworm genome

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Pervasive Horizontal Transfer of Rolling-Circle Transposons among Animals

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A cornucopia of Helitrons shapes the maize genome

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Structure-based discovery and description of plant and animal Helitrons

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Distribution, diversity, evolution, and survival of Helitrons in the maize genome

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The polychromatic Helitron landscape of the maize genome

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Tuned for Transposition: Molecular Determinants Underlying the Hyperactivity of a Stowaway MITE

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Complete Resequencing of 40 Genomes Reveals Domestication Events and Genes in Silkworm (Bombyx)

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A comparative computational analysis of nonautonomous Helitron elements between maize and rice

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Genome-wide screening and characterization of transposable elements and their distribution analysis in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

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Helitrons: Enigmatic abductors and mobilizers of host genome sequences

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