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Transposable elements: Microbiomes in the genomes

Nature Plants volume 1, Article number: 15004 (2015) Cite this article

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Transposons are a major component of many plant genomes. A comparison of two related species differing in genome size and transposon content provides an opportunity to study how transposons contribute to shaping the genome and epigenome.

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Figure 1: The flowering plant of A. alpina (left) and A. thaliana (right).

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  1. Nathan M. Springer is in the Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.,

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