MASSIVE ROLE IN EVOLUTION. “MITEs are often flanked by terminal inverted repeats (TIRs) and produce a short target site duplication (TSD) upon integration. As a group, MITEs form several superfamilies classified according to sequence similarity between their TIRs or TSD and those of autonomous partners. It has been shown that MITEs play important roles in eukaryotic evolution, including an increase in genome size, formation of new genes, and the regulation of gene expression.” (MITEs = miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements); (TIR = terminal inverted repeats); (TSD = target site duplication).
https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13100-018-0125-4
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022