Article
Transposable elements: powerful contributors to angiosperm evolution and diversity.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2013
Oliver Keith R, McComb Jen A, Greene Wayne K
Abstract excerpt
Transposable elements (TEs) are a dominant feature of most flowering plant genomes. Together with other accepted facilitators of evolution, accumulating data indicate that TEs can explain much about their rapid evolution and diversification. Genome size in angiosperms is highly correlated with TE content and the overwhelming bulk (>80%) of large genomes can be composed of TEs. Among retro-TEs, long terminal...
Topics
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Genome Size
- Genome, Plant
- Magnoliopsida
- Polyploidy
- Recombination, Genetic
- Selection, Genetic
- Terminal Repeat Sequences