Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

作者: Patrick J. Keeling and Jeffrey D. Palmer
出處: Nature Reviews Genetics 2008 9: 605-618
簡介:
Horizontal gene transfer(HGT)在真核生物基因組的演化中扮演著重要的角色，不過人們一向將焦點放在比較了解也更為普遍的原核生物間的基因轉移。最近許多研究顯示原核與真核生物的基因轉移，有重大功能上的意義。

[Paper] Evolution of plant miRNA

Author: Michael J. Axtell and John L. Bowman
Title: Evolution of plant microRNAs and their targets
Sources: Trends in Plant Science (2008) 13(7): 343-349. Journal link here
Note:
The authors review the current progress on plant microRNAs and the hypothesis on the evolution. There are 21 highly expressed microRNAs are known to angiosperms and there are several newly identified weakly expressed ones as well.

[Special Issue] Reviews in Plant Cytogenetics

最近一期的Cytogenetic and Genome Research以植物染色體的組成、行為及演化為主題, 討論目前相關領域最新的進展。 這篇special issue的內容如下 (我已下載部份pdf檔存於Atropos), 有興趣者可前往參考

Chromosome Organization

An overview of plant chromosome structure

Chromosome landmarks as tools to study the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana

Physical organisation of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in Triticeae: structural, functional and evolutionary implications

Molecular cytogenetics of forest trees

New Technologies

Plant engineered minichromosomes and artificial chromosome platforms

Radiation hybrid (RH) and HAPPY mapping in plants

Special Chromosomes

A cytogenetic view of sex chromosome evolution in plants

The use of repetitive DNA in cytogenetic studies of plant sex chromosomes

Plant sex chromosomes: molecular structure and function

Chromosomes with a life of their own

Meiosis

Meiosis in plants: ten years of gene discovery

Meiotic genes and proteins in cereals

ASY1 coordinates early events in the plant meiotic recombination pathway

The cytogenetics of homologous chromosome pairing in meiosis in plants

Nuclear architecture and chromosome dynamics in the search of the pairing partner in meiosis in plants

Chromosome 'speed dating' during meiosis of polyploid Brassica hybrids and haploids

Chromosome Evolution

Chromosome numbers in plant cytotaxonomy: concepts and implications

Repetitive DNA and chromosomal rearrangements: speciation-related events in plant genomes

Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding

Pathways to doubled haploidy: chromosome doubling during androgenesis

Cytogenetics of Festulolium (Festuca × Lolium hybrids)

The use of cytogenetic tools for studies in the crop-to-wild gene transfer scenario