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The receptive component of theCy transposable element system (rcy: Mu7) at theBz locus ofZea mays L. is 2.2 kb and has long terminal inverted repeats. The insertion is flanked by a 9 bp duplication. In the presence of an autonomousCy element in the genome,rcy: Mu7 is excised frombz-rcy in a manner consistent with a model suggested previously. The termini ofrcy: Mu7 have 85% sequence similarity with theMu1 element ofZ. mays. This is consistent with the observation thatMu1 can behave genetically like a receptive component of theCy system.
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Schnable, P.S., Peterson, P.A. & Saedler, H. Thebz-rcy allele of theCy transposable element system ofZea mays contains aMu-like element insertion. Molec. Gen. Genet. 217, 459–463 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02464917
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