Recent spread of a retrotransposon in the Silene latifolia genome, apart from the Y chromosome.

Transposable elements often accumulate in nonrecombining regions, such as Y chromosomes. Contrary to this trend, a new Silene retrotransposon described here, has spread recently all over the genome of plant Silene latifolia, except its Y chromosome. This coincided with the latest steps of sex chromo...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Filatov, D, Howell, E, Groutides, C, Armstrong, S
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2009
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Sammanfattning:Transposable elements often accumulate in nonrecombining regions, such as Y chromosomes. Contrary to this trend, a new Silene retrotransposon described here, has spread recently all over the genome of plant Silene latifolia, except its Y chromosome. This coincided with the latest steps of sex chromosome evolution in this species.