Open AccessRetrotransposon Polymorphisms Affect Genic Recombination in Maize
Author(s) -
Nancy A. Eckardt
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.108.200213
Subject(s) - retrotransposon , biology , genetics , recombination , locus (genetics) , haplotype , genome , intraspecific competition , genotype , gene , transposable element , zoology
Maize exhibits a high degree of intraspecific variation in genome structure, most of which is due to intergenic retrotransposon polymorphsisms among unrelated varieties. For example, a comparison of eight haplotypes of the bronze1 ( bz1 ) locus, which contains numerous retrotransposons, showed that
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