Transposable Elements and Evolution

✍ Scribed by John F. McDonald (auth.), J. F. McDonald (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 354
Series: Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution 1
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In the summer of 1992 a distinguished group of molecular, population and evolutionary geneticists assembled on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, USA to discuss the relevance of their research to the role played by transposable elements (TEs) in evolution. The meeting consisted of a series of informal discussions of issues brought up in papers written by the participants and distributed among them prior to the meeting. These papers and the transcripts of the ensuing discussions are presented in this volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Transposable elements and evolution....Pages 1-4
Retrotransposons and the evolution of mammalian gene expression....Pages 5-19
Intragenic suppression: Stalker, a retrovirus-like transposable element, can compensate for a deficiency at the cut locus of Drosophila melanogaster ....Pages 20-27
The splicing of transposable elements and its role in intron evolution....Pages 28-39
Retroviral-like elements, suppressor genes and regulatory evolution....Pages 40-50
The population biology and evolutionary significance of Ty elements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ....Pages 51-73
Population genetics of transposable DNA elements....Pages 74-94
Genomic distribution of transposable elements among individuals of an inbred Drosophila line....Pages 95-107
Genome canalization: the coevolution of Transposable and Interspersed Repetitive Elements with single copy DNA....Pages 108-141
Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in prokaryotes and eukaryotes....Pages 142-148
Transposable elements and the evolution of genome organization in mammals....Pages 149-157
Horizontal transfer of P elements and other short inverted repeat transposons....Pages 158-172
I elements and the Drosophila genome....Pages 173-191
The transposable element hobo in Drosophila melanogaster and related species....Pages 192-200
The role of the transposable element hobo in the origin of endemic inversions in wild populations of Drosophila melanogaster ....Pages 201-217
Transposable DNA elements and life history traits....Pages 218-231
The retrotransposon family micropia in Drosophila species....Pages 232-241
Genetic instability and rapid speciation: are they coupled?....Pages 242-257
Ty1-copia group retrotransposons and the evolution of retroelements in the eukaryotes....Pages 258-274
Evolution of the transposable element Uhu in five species of Hawaiian Drosophila ....Pages 275-289
Evolution of the transposable element mariner in the Drosophila melanogaster species group....Pages 290-302
Arabidopsis and cotton ( Gossypium ) as models for studying copia -like retrotransposon evolution....Pages 303-311
Evolution of A c and Dsl elements in select grasses (Poaceae)....Pages 312-324
Natural genetic engineering in evolution....Pages 325-347

✦ Subjects

Human Genetics; Evolutionary Biology; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology; Biochemistry, general

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