| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2045992 | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 2011 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
⺠TEs are abundant, enormously variable and rapidly changing in all plant genomes. ⺠Epigenetic processes first evolved to silence TEs and viruses. ⺠TE insertion near a gene can place that gene under TE-derived epigenetic control. ⺠Stress may awaken zombie TEs in the hetrochromatin that rise up to kill active TEs. ⺠Gene acquisition and degradation inside TEs may be the ongoing origin of miRNA genes.
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Authors
Damon Lisch, Jeffrey L Bennetzen,