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Transposable elements have been found in a wide range of organisms from bacteria to higher eucaryotes [1]. They are thought to be responsible for the generation of genomic diversity. The study on the distribution of some transposable elements in genomes of E.coli [2, 3], S. cerevisiae [4], allium [5], maize [6] and mouse [7] showed that these transposable elements were not randomly distributed in the genome. These results suggest that “transposon islands” are present in the genomes. In rice-pathogenic Mgrisea, seven transposons have been reported: retrotransposons, MGSR1 [8], MGR583 [9, 10], MAGGY [11], fosbury [12], and Mg-SINE [13], and two DNA transposons, MGR586 [9, 14] and Pot2 [15]. The analysis using some cosmid clones also suggested that some of them co-occurred in the fungal genome [12, 16]. However, clustering patterns of these transposable elements in the fungal genome was difficult to analyze with cosmids because of their small insert size.
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Nishimura, M. et al. (2000). Analysis of Transposable-Element Clustering Patterns in Magnaporthe Grisea Genome Using BAC Library. In: Tharreau, D., Lebrun, M.H., Talbot, N.J., Notteghem, J.L. (eds) Advances in Rice Blast Research. Developments in Plant Pathology, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9430-1_38
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