It is generally accepted that the wide variation in genome size observed among eukaryotic
species is more closely correlated with the amount of repetitive DNA than with the number of …

Gene duplication is an important evolutionary mechanism allowing to provide new genetic
material and thus opportunities to acquire new gene functions for an organism, with major …

The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model system for identifying genes
and determining their functions. Here we report the analysis of the genomic sequence of …

Long terminal repeat retrotransposons (LTR elements) are ubiquitous eukaryotic
transposable elements. They play important roles in the evolution of genes and genomes …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …

A large set of endogenous small RNAs of predominantly 21 to 24 nucleotides was identified
in Arabidopsis. These small RNAs resembled micro-RNAs from animals and were similar in …

Horizontal gene transfer, the movement of genetic material between species, has been
reported across all major eukaryotic lineages. However, the underlying mechanisms of …

Mutator-like transposable elements (MULEs) are found in many eukaryotic genomes and
are especially prevalent in higher plants,,. In maize, rice and Arabidopsis a few MULEs were …

Retrotransposons, which proliferate by reverse transcription of RNA intermediates, comprise
a major portion of plant genomes,. Plants often change the genome size and organization …

We report a whole-genome comparison of gene content in allelic BAC contigs from two
maize inbred lines. Genic content polymorphisms involve as many as 10,000 sequences …