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In general, the major clades of rice LTR retrotransposons are more closely related to elements present in other species than to the other clades of rice elements, suggesting that horizontal transfer may have occurred over the evolutionary history of rice LTR retrotransposons.
Alternatively, it has been reported that the poly(A) tails of retrotransposons may be a source for the creation of microsatellites through post-insertional mutations [ 24, 54]; the patterned tails we found may therefore exemplify this transition from poly(A) tail to microsatellites.
In this report, we provide evidence for an evolutionary link between this newly characterized family of baculovirus envelope proteins and the envelope proteins predicted for a variety of insect retrovirus-like retrotransposons.
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].
LTR_STRUC identifies new LTR retrotransposons on the basis of the presence of characteristic retroelement features (E.M.M.