Repetitive sequences and epigenetic modification: inseparable partners play important roles in the evolution of plant sex chromosomes

Planta

Volumn 243, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1083-1095

  Li, Shu Fen ^a   Zhang, Guo Jun ^b   Yuan, Jin Hong ^a   Deng, Chuan Liang ^a   Gao, Wu Jun ^a  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINXIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dioecious plant; Heterochromatization; Recombination suppression; Repetitive elements; Sex chromosome evolution; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

EVOLUTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLANT; PLANT CHROMOSOME;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; PLANTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84988221539     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-016-2485-7     Document Type: Review

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