Impact of transposable elements on the organization and function of allopolyploid genomes

C Parisod, K Alix, J Just, M Petit, V Sarilar… - New …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Transposable elements (TEs) represent an important fraction of plant genomes and are
likely to play a pivotal role in fuelling genome reorganization and functional changes …

[HTML][HTML] Recent insights into mechanisms of genome size change in plants

CE Grover, JF Wendel - Journal of Botany, 2010 - hindawi.com
Genome sizes vary considerably across all eukaryotes and even among closely related
species. The genesis and evolutionary dynamics of that variation have generated …

Evolutionary rate variation, genomic dominance and duplicate gene expression evolution during allotetraploid cotton speciation

LE Flagel, JF Wendel - New Phytologist, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we describe the evolution of gene expression among a diversified cohort of five
allopolyploid species in the cotton genus (Gossypium). Using this phylogenetic framework …

Homoeologous nonreciprocal recombination in polyploid cotton

A Salmon, L Flagel, B Ying, JA Udall… - New …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploid formation and processes that create partial genomic duplication generate
redundant genomic information, whose fate is of particular interest to evolutionary biologists …

Genetic and epigenetic dynamics of a retrotransposon after allopolyploidization of wheat

Z Kraitshtein, B Yaakov, V Khasdan, K Kashkush - Genetics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Allopolyploidy, or the combination of two or more distinct genomes in one nucleus, is usually
accompanied by radical genomic changes involving transposable elements (TEs). The …

Spatio‐temporal patterns of genome evolution in allotetraploid species of the genus Oryza

JSS Ammiraju, C Fan, Y Yu, X Song… - The Plant …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Despite knowledge that polyploidy is widespread and a major evolutionary force in flowering
plant diversification, detailed comparative molecular studies on polyploidy have been …

The history and disposition of transposable elements in polyploid Gossypium

G Hu, JS Hawkins, CE Grover, JF Wendel - Genome, 2010 - cdnsciencepub.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are a major component of plant genomes. It is of particular
interest to explore the potential activation of TE proliferation, especially in hybrids and …

Structure and size variations between 12A and 12D homoeologous chromosomes based on high-resolution cytogenetic map in allotetraploid cotton

K Wang, W Guo, Z Yang, Y Hu, W Zhang, B Zhou… - Chromosoma, 2010 - Springer
Cotton is a model system for studying polyploidization, genomic organization, and genome-
size variation because the allotetraploid was formed 1-2 million years ago, which is old …

Orthologous Comparisons of the Hd1 Region across Genera Reveal Hd1 Gene Lability within Diploid Oryza Species and Disruptions to Microsynteny in Sorghum

A Sanyal, JSS Ammiraju, F Lu, Y Yu… - Molecular biology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Heading date is one of the most important quantitative traits responsible for the
domestication of rice. We compared a 155-kb reference segment of the Oryza sativa ssp …

[HTML][HTML] Gene copy number evolution during tetraploid cotton radiation

J Rong, FA Feltus, L Liu, L Lin, AH Paterson - Heredity, 2010 - nature.com
After polyploid formation, retention or loss of duplicated genes is not random. Genes with
some functional domains are convergently restored to 'singleton'state after many …