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'Mavericks, also known as Polintons, are unique because they share features of both transposons and viruses. Like transposons, Mavericks are flanked by terminal inverted repeats and can readily jump and insert into genomes. Like viruses, they code for a large number of proteins, including a type-B DNA polymerase, a retroviral-like integrase, as well as major and minor capsid proteins'
