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CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages 135-141Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2017.03.002
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- Watson School of Biological Sciences
- Gatsby Charitable Foundation
- Royal Society
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- NSF [DBI-1025830]
- NIH [GM067014]
- BBSRC [BB/K007882/1, BB/N007557/1, BB/M004937/1, BB/N002628/1, BB/L006847/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/K007882/1, BB/L006847/1, BB/N002628/1, BB/M004937/1, 985774, BB/N007557/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Transposable elements are mobile genetic elements that are prevalent in plant genomes and are silenced by epigenetic modification. Different epigenetic modification pathways play distinct roles in the control of transposable element transcription, replication and recombination. The Arabidopsis genome contains families of all of the major transposable element classes, which are differentially enriched in particular genomic regions. Whole genome sequencing and DNA methylation profiling of hundreds of natural Arabidopsis accessions has revealed that transposable elements exhibit significant intraspecific genetic and epigenetic variation, and that genetic variation often underlies epigenetic variation. Together, epigenetic modification and the forces of selection define the scope within which transposable elements can contribute to, and control, genome evolution.
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