植物基因组中微型反向重复转座元件(MITE)研究进展

Miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are special transposable elements, they belong to DNA transposon. They are similarly with DNA transposon in structural, but hold the high copy numbers characteristic of retrotransposon. MITEs are associated with genes, may play an important role in gene regulation, so MITEs generally have became an important tool in gene and genomic evolution and diversity. Research progress about MITEs was stated briefly in this article, and made an outlook on their application.