Open AccessA New Twist on Transposons
Author(s) -
Nancy A. Eckardt
Publication year - 2003
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.150210
Subject(s) - biology , transposable element , twist , genetics , computational biology , evolutionary biology , genome , gene , geometry , mathematics
Transposable elements (transposons or TEs), which are capable of transferring segments of DNA (or of being transferred) from one site to another within a genome, are abundant in eukaryotic genomes. The highly repetitive, largely noncoding sequence that is prevalent in eukaryotic genomes consists
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