dc.creator |
Marco, Antonio |
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dc.creator |
Marín, Ignacio |
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dc.date |
2008-06-20T09:37:51Z |
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dc.date |
2008-06-20T09:37:51Z |
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dc.date |
2008-05-14 |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2017-01-31T01:44:48Z |
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dc.date.available |
2017-01-31T01:44:48Z |
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dc.identifier |
BMC Genomics 2008, 9:219 |
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dc.identifier |
1471-2164 |
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dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/5210 |
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dc.identifier |
10.1186/1471-2164-9-219 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/5210 |
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dc.description |
This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/219 |
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dc.description |
[Background] Transposable elements are selfish genetic sequences which only occasionally provide useful functions to their host species. In addition, models of mobile element evolution assume a second type of selfishness: elements of different familes do not cooperate, but they independently fight for their survival in the host genome. |
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dc.description |
[Results] We show that recombination events among distantly related Athila retrotransposons have led to the generation of new Athila lineages. Their pattern of diversification suggests that Athila elements survive in Arabidopsis by a combination of selfish replication and of amplification of highly diverged copies with coding potential. Many Athila elements are non-autonomous but still conserve intact open reading frames which are under the effect of negative, purifying natural selection. |
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dc.description |
[Conclusion] The evolution of these mobile elements is far more complex than hitherto assumed. Strict selfish replication does not explain all the patterns observed. |
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dc.description |
Research supported by grant 200720I021 (Proyectos intramurales especiales, CSIC. Spain). |
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dc.description |
Peer reviewed |
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application/pdf |
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dc.language |
eng |
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dc.publisher |
BioMed Central |
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dc.relation |
Publisher’s version |
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dc.rights |
openAccess |
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dc.title |
How Athila retrotransposons survive in the Arabidopsis genome |
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dc.type |
Artículo |
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