Plant LTR-retrotransposons and MITEs: Control of transposition and impact on the evolution of plant genes and genomes

Gene

Volumn 311, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-11

  Casacuberta, Josep M ^a   Santiago, Néstor ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Silencing; Stress; Transcription; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; HYBRIDIZATION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METHYLATION; MINIATURE INVERTED REPEAT TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ACARI; EUKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037633476     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00557-2     Document Type: Review

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