Welcome to the Plant MITE Database

Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are prevalent in eukaryotic genomes, and are believed to be deletion derivatives of DNA transposons. MITEs usually have terminal inverted repeats (TIRs), flanked by short direct repeats (also called target site duplications, TSDs). MITEs are predicted to play important roles in gene and genome evolution. MITEs usually have a high copy number in plant genomes, and are often associated with genes. MITEs may be transcribed with genes and form pairs of natRNAs. MITEs generate a large number of small RNAs and may be the ancestors of some miRNAs genes. MITEs may regulate the expressions of nearby genes.

This MITE database contains more than 2 million MITE-related sequences of 3,527 MITE families, identified from 41 sequenced plant genomes. At least one sequence from each family has been manually investigated to verify that it is bona fide MITE and their TSD sequences are marked. You may search or download a sequence from the database. The database can be used to check if a sequence in question has MITE related sequences and to improve gene annotation since MITEs are frequently inserted into genes. The sequences in these databases can be also used to study the origin, amplification and evolution of MITEs.

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Citations: Researchers who wish to use our P-MITE database are encouraged to refer to our publication:

Chen, J., Hu, Q., Zhang, Y., Lu, C. and Kuang, H. (2013) P-MITE: a database for plant miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements. Nucleic Acids Res. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt1000

For P-MITE Webdata link https://pan.baidu.com/s/1XoDtp3bkq0obdUQp8RKuNQ for pmite_webdata extraction code: yksw

For RSPB and MITE-Hunter Link https://pan.baidu.com/s/19vh3t2t4bbUT4rK6cyLbzQ extraction code: 4rgt

All MITE-related sequences from P-MITE website:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S2qC6Wb64mdarfhN85gnWF1zUfYlQ6kF/view?usp=sharing

RSPB and MITE-Hunter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LLzg0OoHmOEnfPu3y0Vw5rxDnFiWeaPX/view?usp=sharing