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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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Presence/absence polymorphisms of Mothra elements between O. sativa and O. glaberrima. O. sativa and O. glaberrima diverged approximately 600.000 ya. a True polymorphisms are characterized by presence/absence of whole elements. We found a total of four insertions and four putative excisions. b Most of the variation in the two Mothra populations comes from repeat-slippage or unequal crossing-over

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