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Fig. 1 | Mobile DNA

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From: The making of a genomic parasite - the Mothra family sheds light on the evolution of Helitrons in plants

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Overview of the non-autonomous Mothra consensus sequence and its putative mother element. a Dot-plot of the non-autonomous Mothra consensus sequence against itself shows the two repetitive Blocs A and B. b GC-plot of the non-autonomous element. Note that Bloc A shows a unusual low GC-content of approximately 20 %. c Schematic overview of the non-autonomous Mothra and its putative mother element below. Both elements share the characteristic hairpin structure at the 3' end. The termini of the putative mother element and the non-autonomous consensus are conserved (in yellow). Furthermore, the non-autonomous elements shows the putative ORF of 96 amino acids. Note here, that the putative mother element of Mothras encodes for a RPA homolog, which we named PHRPA, but no RepHel protein

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