Turning junk into gold: domestication of
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Jean-Nicolas Volff
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Autonomous transposable elements, generally considered as junk and selfish, encode transposition proteins that can bind, copy, break, join or degrade nucleic acids as well as process or interact with other proteins. Such a repertoire of activities might be of interest for the host cell.