The exaptation of nitrate/carbon stress-induced smRNAs and their targets from transposable elements in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Transposable elements (TEs) are acknowledged sources of genetic change within organisms. The effects of transposition can range from the disruption or creation of a single gene to large-scale genome rearrangements. Transposition events can result in beneficial mutations which allow an organism to ad...
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University of Iowa
2009
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/269 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1454&context=etd |