Horizontal transfer of a plant transposon.

The majority of well-documented cases of horizontal transfer between higher eukaryotes involve the movement of transposable elements between animals. Surprisingly, although plant genomes often contain vast numbers of these mobile genetic elements, no evidence of horizontal transfer of a nuclear-enco...

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Main Authors: Xianmin Diao, Michael Freeling, Damon Lisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1310652?pdf=render