The sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) genome reflects a recent history of biased accumulation of transposable elements

Plant Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 142-153

  Staton, S Evan ^a   Bakken, Bradley H ^b   Blackman, Benjamin K ^c,g   Chapman, Mark A ^d,h   Kane, Nolan C ^e   Tang, Shunxue ^f,i   Ungerer, Mark C ^b   Knapp, Steven J ^f,j   Rieseberg, Loren H ^e   Burke, John M ^d  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

^j Monsanto Vegetable Seeds   (United States)

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Author keywords

Asteraceae; chromodomain; genome evolution; Helianthus annuus; LTR retrotransposon; transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; CHROMODOMAINS; GENOME EVOLUTION; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS; RETROTRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS;

CLONING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENES;

PLANT DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUNFLOWER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, PLANT; HELIANTHUS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ASTERACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS;

EID: 84866730704     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.05072.x     Document Type: Review

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