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Transposable elements are interspersed repeats of DNA that have the ability to move to new positions within the genome of a host.
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Levin, H.L. (2004). The Retrotransposons of S. pombe . In: Egel, R. (eds) The Molecular Biology of Schizosaccharomyces pombe . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10360-9_8
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