Abundant degenerate miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements in genomes of epichloid fungal endophytes of grasses

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1253-1264

  Fleetwood, Damien J ^a,b   Khan, Anar K ^c   Johnson, Richard D ^a   Young, Carolyn A ^d   Mittal, Shipra ^d   Wrenn, Ruth E ^e   Hesse, Uljana ^f   Foster, Simon J ^e,g   Schardl, Christopher L ^f   Scott, Barry ^e  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^d PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^g SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endophyte; Epichlo ; Fungi; Genome evolution; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANIMALIA; EPICHLOE; EPICHLOE FESTUCAE; FUNGI; POACEAE;

ARTICLE; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS; HYPOCREALES; INVERTED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POACEAE; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDOPHYTES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, FUNGAL; HYPOCREALES; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POACEAE;

EID: 84857144654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr098     Document Type: Article

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