Biol 5410: Molecular Evolution

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Casacuberta, J.M. and N. Santiago. 2003. Plant LTR-retrotransposons and MITEs: control of transposition and impact on the evolution of plant genes and genomes. Gene, 311:1-11.
Deininger et al. 2003. Mobile elements and mammalian genome evolution.
Goddard, MR and A Burt 2003. Recurrent invasion and extinction of a selfish gene.
Haugen, Peik et al. 2004. The evolution of homing endonuclease genes and group I introns in nuclear rDNA.
Hurst, G.D.D. and J.H. Werren. 2001. The role of selfish genetic elements in eukaryotic evolution. Nature Reviews 2:597-606.
Lynch, Michael and John S. Conery. 2003. The origins of genome complexity
Malik, Harmit S. and Thomas H. Eickbush. 2001. Phylogenetic analysis of ribonuclease H domains suggest a late, chimeric origin of LTR retrotransposable elements and retroviruses. Genome Research, 11(7):1187-1197.
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Zhang, Jianzhi. 2003. Evolution by gene duplication: an update