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. 2015 Apr;20(4):195-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.03.007. Epub 2015 Mar 20.

Selfish genetic elements and plant genome size evolution

J Arvid Ågren  1 , Stephen I Wright  2
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Selfish genetic elements and plant genome size evolution

J Arvid Ågren et al. Trends Plant Sci. 2015 Apr.

Abstract

Plants have contributed extensively to our understanding of selfish genetic elements. Most recently, the sequencing of the Arabis alpina genome shows how the co-evolutionary arms race between transposable elements and the silencing machinery employed to control them may drive the evolution of genome size.

Keywords: Arabis alpina; selfish genetic elements; transposable elements.

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