How important are transposons for plant evolution?

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-61

  Lisch, Damon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTEGRASE; MICRORNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSPOSASE;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CROP; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOXTAIL MILLET; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RICE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SUNFLOWER; TRANSPOSON;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; PLANTS;

EID: 84871329875     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3374     Document Type: Review

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