Acknowledgments We thank Professor T. A. Miller from the University of California, Riverside, CA for his kindness in providing the helper pBacHsp and donor pB[KOα] plasmid. This work was supported by a national project for basic research (2006CB 102003), China postdoctoral science foundation (20090451226), and IAEA project (15686/RO/RBF).
Nine piggyBac-like elements (PLEs) were identified from the cotton aphid Aphis gossypii Glover. All the PLEs shared high sequence similarity with each other. However, eight of the nine PLEs were unlikely to encode f...
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