R4, a non-LTR retrotransposon specific to the large subunit rRNA genes of nematodes.

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Published in Nucleic Acids Res on November 25, 1995

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W D Burke1, F Müller, T H Eickbush

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1: Department of Biology, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA.

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