Once the potential characteristics of these unusual elements were recognized, analyses of previously reported plant retrotransposons with long uncharacterized regions between pol and the 3′ LTR revealed that conceptual translation of these interrupted 3′ eORFs could generate hypothetical proteins with highly significant sequence similarity to those described above (Laten 1999 ; Peterson-Burch et al. 2000 ) (see Table 6.1 ).
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