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Alignment of the first 25 nucleotides of known maize Helitron 5' ends. A * means that all the sequences at that particular location are the same. There is a strong similarity in the first 18 nucleotides among the aligned Helitrons. The consensus from the alignment is our main criterion to search for the 5' end of new Helitrons.
