TY - JOUR
T1 - MITEs, miniature elements with a major role in plant genome evolution
AU - Guermonprez, Hélène
AU - Hénaff, Elizabeth
AU - Cifuentes, Marta
AU - Casacuberta, Josep M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Marilyn Rice and Douglas Geissert for expert technical assistance. This work was supported by a grant from the NIH and by gifts from Biogen, Inc., and Merck. A.D. is supported a grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (N. W. 0.). L.B. is supported by USPHS National Institute Research Service Award CA-09056. J.H. is a fellow (PF 3432) of the American Cancer Society. E.S. is a fellow of the Deutsche For-schungsgemeinschaft .
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs) are a particular type of class II transposons found in genomes in high copy numbers. Most MITEs are deletion derivatives of class II transposons whose transposases have been shown to mobilize them by a typical cut-and-paste mechanism. However, unlike class II transposons, MITEs can amplify rapidly and dramatically and attain very high copy numbers, in particular, in plant genomes. This high copy number, together with their close association with genes, endows MITEs with a high potential to generate variability, and impact gene and genome evolution.
AB - Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs) are a particular type of class II transposons found in genomes in high copy numbers. Most MITEs are deletion derivatives of class II transposons whose transposases have been shown to mobilize them by a typical cut-and-paste mechanism. However, unlike class II transposons, MITEs can amplify rapidly and dramatically and attain very high copy numbers, in particular, in plant genomes. This high copy number, together with their close association with genes, endows MITEs with a high potential to generate variability, and impact gene and genome evolution.
KW - Amplification
KW - Impact of transposition
KW - MITE-Class II transposons
KW - Transposition mechanism
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-31842-9_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-31842-9_7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875468637
SN - 1610-2096
VL - 24
SP - 113
EP - 124
JO - Topics in Current Genetics
JF - Topics in Current Genetics
ER -