Single integration and spread of a copia-like sequence nested in rDNA intergenic spacers of allium cernuum (Alliaceae)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 35-46

  Chester, M ^a   Sykorova, E ^b,c   Fajkus, J ^b,c   Leitch, Andrew R ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

35S rDNA; Alliaceae; Concerted evolution; Copia retrotransposons; Homogenization

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S; DNA 26S; RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA; PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GARLIC; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; CLASSIFICATION; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLIACEAE; ALLIUM CERNUUM;

ALLIUM; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NESTED GENES; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955291365     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000312959     Document Type: Article

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