Plant Genome Diversity Volume 1: Plant Genomes, Their Residents, and Their Evolutionary Dynamics

Book Overview

1. The first ten years of plant genome sequencing and prospects for the next decade (L. Flagel and B. Blackman).- 2. Plant transposable elements: biology and evolution (E. Kejnovsky, J. Hawkins, C. Feschotte).- 3. The impact of transposable elements on gene and genome evolution (R. Slotkin, S. Nuthikattu, and N. Jiang).- 4. Centromeres: sequences, structure, and biology (C. Hirsch and J. Jiang).- 5. Telomeres and their biology (M. Siomos and K. Riha).- 6. The biology and dynamics of plant small RNAs (T.-F. Lee, P. Li, and B. Meyers ).- 7. Variation in rates of molecular evolution in plants and implications for estimating divergence times (J. Burleigh).- 8. Conserved non-coding sequences in plant genomes (S. Subramaniam and M. Freeling).- 9. Plant mitochondrial genome diversity - the genomics revolution (J. Mower, D. Sloan, and A. Alverson).- 10. Plastid genome diversity (P. Wolf).- 11. Duplication and turnover in plant genomes (M. Barker).- 12. Concerted evolution of multigene families and homoeologous recombination (G. Nieto-Feliner and J.A. Rossello).- 13. Synteny and genomic rearrangements (A. Paterson, X. Wang, H. Tang, and T. H. Lee).- 14. The variation of base composition in plant genomes (P. Smarda and P. Bures).- 15. Chromatin modifications in plants (X. Zhang).- 16. Evolutionary significance of epigenetic variation (C. Richards, K. J. F. Verhoeven and O. Bossdorf ).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3709116996
• ISBN13: 9783709116999
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 10.8"