Give-and-take: interactions between DNA transposons and their host plant genomes

• Published in: Current opinion in genetics & development Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 486 - 492
• Main Authors: Dooner, Hugo K, Weil, Clifford F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2007
• Subjects: DNA Transposable Elements - genetics; DNA Transposable Elements - physiology; Epigenesis, Genetic; Gene Rearrangement; Genome, Plant; Medical Education; Models, Genetic; Plants - genetics

Recent genome sequencing efforts have revealed how extensively transposable elements (TEs) have contributed to the shaping of present day plant genomes. DNA transposons associate preferentially with the euchromatic or genic component of plant genomes and have had the opportunity to interact intimate...