MITE (CURRENT_SVN) |
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SO Accession: | SO:0000338 (SOWiki) |
Definition: | A highly repetitive and short (100-500 base pair) transposable element with terminal inverted repeats (TIR) and target site duplication (TSD). MITEs do not encode proteins. |
Synonyms: | miniature inverted repeat transposable element |
DB Xrefs: | URL: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/18/10083 |
Parent: | terminal_inverted_repeat_element (SO:0000208) |
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