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Example sentences for: retrotransposon

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The level of nucleotide identity seen between LTRs of a particular element, usually referred to as intra-element percent LTR nucleotide identity (%LNI), can be used in determining the relative ages of LTR retrotransposon families [ 7].
Osr5 is 60% similar to the tobacco retrotransposon Tnt1-94 at the amino-acid level (RT comparison).
This disproportionate increase in the percentage of LTR retrotransposons as a function of genome size is consistent with the view that genome size variability in plants is often heavily dependent on variation in LTR retrotransposon content [ 27, 28].
Outside rice, the RT of Osr10 shows highest similarity (~65%) to that of the maize retrotransposon Opie-2 (T04112).
Currently, there is no consensus with respect to rice retrotransposon nomenclature.