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Positive and Negative Regulation of the Suppressor-Mutator Element

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Plant Transposable Elements

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The Suppressor-mutator (Spm) element is one of the most extensively studied maize transposable elements. It is the fully functional member of a transposable element family containing many functionally altered and mutant members. McClintock’s genetic studies on the Spm family defined the functional interrelationships both among elements of the family and between the elements and genes with Spm insertion mutations (12–27). Rhoades and Dempsey (35) independently identified mutations caused by the same element family; these were subsequently studied by Peterson (30–34), who named the element Enhancer (En).

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Fedoroff, N., Masson, P., Banks, J., Kingsbury, J. (1988). Positive and Negative Regulation of the Suppressor-Mutator Element. In: Nelson, O., Wilson, C.M., Saslaw, C.G. (eds) Plant Transposable Elements. Basic Life Sciences, vol 47. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5550-2_1

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