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Arrangement Of Gene Pairs, Retrotransposon Insertions, And Regulation Of Gene Expression In Plants, Nicholas D. Krom
Arrangement Of Gene Pairs, Retrotransposon Insertions, And Regulation Of Gene Expression In Plants, Nicholas D. Krom
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Plant genomes are extremely complex. Myriad factors contribute to their evolution and organization, as well as to the expression and regulation of individual genes. Here we present investigations into several such factors and their influence on genome structure and gene expression: the arrangement of pairs of physically adjacent genes, retrotransposons closely associated with genes, and the effect of retrotransposons on gene pair evolution.
All sequenced plant genomes contain a significant fraction of retrotransposons, including that of rice. We investigated the effects of retrotransposons within rice genes and within a 1 kb putative promoter region upstream of each gene. We found …