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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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2005-12-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040005 |