How important are transposons for plant evolution?

Gene alterations at Drosophila inversion breakpoints provide prima facie evidence for natural selection as an explanation for rapid chromosomal evolution

(2012) Yolanda Guillén et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Fractionation mutagenesis and similar consequences of mechanisms removing dispensable or less-expressed DNA in plants

(2012) Michael Freeling et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

A map of rice genome variation reveals the origin of cultivated rice

(2012) Xuehui Huang et al.   NATURE

Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux

(2012) Jer-Ming Chia et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Grass MicroRNA Gene Paleohistory Unveils New Insights into Gene Dosage Balance in Subgenome Partitioning after Whole-Genome Duplication

(2012) M. Abrouk et al.   PLANT CELL

Retrotransposons Control Fruit-Specific, Cold-Dependent Accumulation of Anthocyanins in Blood Oranges

(2012) E. Butelli et al.   PLANT CELL

Dramatic genotypic difference in, and effect of genetic crossing on, tissue culture-induced mobility of retrotransposon Tos17 in rice

(2012) Chunjing Lin et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Dynamic evolution ofbzorthologous regions in theAndropogoneaeand other grasses

(2012) Qinghua Wang et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Advances in plant genome sequencing

(2012) John P. Hamilton et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

A Gene Family Derived from Transposable Elements during Early Angiosperm Evolution Has Reproductive Fitness Benefits in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2012) Zoé Joly-Lopez et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evolutionary origins of Brassicaceae specific genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2011) Mark TA Donoghue et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genome Rearrangements in Maize Induced by Alternative Transposition of ReversedAc/DsTermini

(2011) Chuanhe Yu et al.   GENETICS

Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs) Have Been Accumulated through Amplification Bursts and Play Important Roles in Gene Expression and Species Diversity in Oryza sativa

(2011) C. Lu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Halfway point for 1,001 genomes quest

(2011) Heidi Ledford   NATURE

Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry

(2011) Mathieu Joron et al.   NATURE

An siRNA pathway prevents transgenerational retrotransposition in plants subjected to stress

(2011) Hidetaka Ito et al.   NATURE

Resequencing 50 accessions of cultivated and wild rice yields markers for identifying agronomically important genes

(2011) Xun Xu et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Coordinated transcriptional regulation underlying the circadian clock in Arabidopsis

(2011) Gang Li et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The Arabidopsis lyrata genome sequence and the basis of rapid genome size change

(2011) Tina T Hu et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Identification of a functional transposon insertion in the maize domestication gene tb1

(2011) Anthony Studer et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genome-Wide Binding Site Analysis of FAR-RED ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL3 Reveals Its Novel Function in Arabidopsis Development

(2011) X. Ouyang et al.   PLANT CELL

Natural Variation in Arabidopsis: From Molecular Genetics to Ecological Genomics

(2011) D. Weigel   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Pink-Colored Grape Berry Is the Result of Short Insertion in Intron of Color Regulatory Gene

(2011) Mamiko Shimazaki et al.   PLoS One

Major-Effect Alleles at Relatively Few Loci Underlie Distinct Vernalization and Flowering Variation in Arabidopsis Accessions

(2011) Amy Strange et al.   PLoS One

Transposable elements and small RNAs contribute to gene expression divergence between Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata

(2011) J. D. Hollister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phenomics – technologies to relieve the phenotyping bottleneck

(2011) Robert T. Furbank et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Two Evolutionary Histories in the Genome of Rice: the Roles of Domestication Genes

(2011) Ziwen He et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genome-wide association studies in plants: the missing heritability is in the field

(2011) Benjamin Brachi et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Transpositional reactivation of two LTR retrotransposons in rice-Zizania recombinant inbred lines (RILs)

(2010) Hong-Yan Wang et al.   HEREDITAS

Global Epigenetic and Transcriptional Trends among Two Rice Subspecies and Their Reciprocal Hybrids

(2010) G. He et al.   PLANT CELL

Genome-Wide Distribution of TransposedDissociationElements in Maize

(2010) Erik Vollbrecht et al.   PLANT CELL

Rice structural variation: a comparative analysis of structural variation between rice and three of its closest relatives in the genus Oryza

(2010) Bonnie L. Hurwitz et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Local DNA hypomethylation activates genes in rice endosperm

(2010) A. Zemach et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Widespread Chromosomal Inversion Polymorphism Contributes to a Major Life-History Transition, Local Adaptation, and Reproductive Isolation

(2010) David B. Lowry et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Transposed Genes in Arabidopsis Are Often Associated with Flanking Repeats

(2010) Margaret R. Woodhouse et al.   PLoS Genetics

Potential impact of stress activated retrotransposons on genome evolution in a marine diatom

(2009) Florian Maumus et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Conserved noncoding sequences (CNSs) in higher plants

(2009) Michael Freeling et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

DNA changes tell us about rice domestication

(2009) Takeshi Izawa et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Mutations in retrotransposon AtCOPIA4 compromises resistance to Hyaloperonospora parasitica in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2009) Yi-Hong Wang et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Epigenetic silencing of transposable elements: A trade-off between reduced transposition and deleterious effects on neighboring gene expression

(2009) J. D. Hollister et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of diversity within grapevine varieties

(2009) F Pelsy   HEREDITY

Geminivirus AL2 and L2 Proteins Suppress Transcriptional Gene Silencing and Cause Genome-Wide Reductions in Cytosine Methylation

(2009) R. C. Buchmann et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Bursts of retrotransposition reproduced in Arabidopsis

(2009) Sayuri Tsukahara et al.   NATURE

Unexpected consequences of a sudden and massive transposon amplification on rice gene expression

(2009) Ken Naito et al.   NATURE

The Functional Role of Pack-MULEs in Rice Inferred from Purifying Selection and Expression Profile

(2009) K. Hanada et al.   PLANT CELL

Solving the Maze

(2009) C. Feuillet et al.   SCIENCE

Extensive Demethylation of Repetitive Elements During Seed Development Underlies Gene Imprinting

(2009) M. Gehring et al.   SCIENCE

The Palomero Genome Suggests Metal Effects on Domestication

(2009) J.-P. Vielle-Calzada et al.   SCIENCE

The flowering world: a tale of duplications

(2009) Yves Van de Peer et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Mu Transposon Insertion Sites and Meiotic Recombination Events Co-Localize with Epigenetic Marks for Open Chromatin across the Maize Genome

(2009) Sanzhen Liu et al.   PLoS Genetics

Epigenetic Regulation of Transposable Elements in Plants

(2008) Damon Lisch   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Highly Integrated Single-Base Resolution Maps of the Epigenome in Arabidopsis

(2008) Ryan Lister et al.   CELL

Genetic variation in rice

(2008) Kazuyuki Doi et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Many or most genes in Arabidopsis transposed after the origin of the order Brassicales

(2008) M. Freeling et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Transposable elements and the evolution of regulatory networks

(2008) Cédric Feschotte   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Dynamic Evolution of Oryza Genomes Is Revealed by Comparative Genomic Analysis of a Genus-Wide Vertical Data Set

(2008) J. S.S. Ammiraju et al.   PLANT CELL

Repetitive Element-Mediated Recombination as a Mechanism for New Gene Origination in Drosophila

(2008) Shuang Yang et al.   PLoS Genetics

A Retrotransposon-Mediated Gene Duplication Underlies Morphological Variation of Tomato Fruit

(2008) H. Xiao et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic amplification of the Gret1 retroelement in white-fruited accessions of wild Vitis and interspecific hybrids

(2008) Molly M. Cadle-Davidson et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Evolution and Control of Imprinted FWA Genes in the Genus Arabidopsis

(2008) Ryo Fujimoto et al.   PLoS Genetics