Variation in Copy Number of Ty3/Gypsy Centromeric Retrotransposons in the Genomes of Thinopyrum intermedium and Its Diploid Progenitors.

Speciation and allopolyploidization in cereals may be accompanied by dramatic changes in abundance of centromeric repeated transposable elements. Here we demonstrate that the reverse transcriptase part of Ty3/gypsy centromeric retrotransposon (RT-CR) is highly conservative in the segmental hexaploid...

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Main Authors: Mikhail G Divashuk, Thi Mai L Khuat, Pavel Yu Kroupin, Ilya V Kirov, Dmitry V Romanov, Anna V Kiseleva, Ludmila I Khrustaleva, Dmitry G Alexeev, Alexandr S Zelenin, Marina V Klimushina, Olga V Razumova, Gennady I Karlov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4847875?pdf=render