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Nature Reviews Genetics 10, 276 (1 April 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrg2165-c3

A unified classification system for eukaryotic transposable elements should reflect their phylogeny

Ole Seberg & Gitte Petersen

To assist genome annotators in naming transposable elements (TEs), Wicker et al. propose in their Guidelines article (A unified classification system for eukaryotic transposable elements. Nature Rev.