Articles selected by Faculty of 1000: ectopic gene conversions; heterozygous insertions in C. elegans; plant RNA silencing suppression; phage insertion into the host genome; screening viral protein variants

Ectopic gene conversions; heterozygous insertions in C. elegans; plant RNA silencing suppression; phage insertion into the host genome; screening viral protein variants

Subject areas: Plant biology, Genetics, Microbiology and parasitology, Genome studies

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://genomebiology.com/2005/6/10/352/

Published:

20 September 2005

Genome Biology 2005, 6:352

Ectopic gene conversions

Ectopic gene conversions increase the G + C content of duplicated yeast and Arabidopsis genes. Benovoy D, Morris RT, Morin A, Drouin G. Mol Biol Evol 2005, 22:1865-1868.

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Heterozygous insertions in C. elegans

Heterozygous insertions alter crossover distribution but allow crossover interference in C. elegans. Hammarlund M, Davis MW, Nguyen H, Dayton D, Jorgensen EM. Genetics 2005, August 22.

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Plant RNA silencing suppression

A plant RNA virus suppresses RNA silencing through viral RNA replication. Takeda A, Tsukuda M, Mizumoto H, Okamoto K, Kaido M, Mise K, Okuno T. EMBO J 2005, 24:3147-3157.

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Phage insertion into the host genome

The single-stranded genome of phage CTX is the form used for integration into the genome of Vibrio cholerae. Val ME, Bouvier M, Campos J, Sherratt D, Cornet F, Mazel D, Barre FX. Mol Cell 2005, 19:559-566.

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Screening viral protein variants

Library versus library recognition and inhibition of the HIV-1 Nef allelome. Olszewski A, Weiss GA. J Am Chem Soc 2005, 127:12178-12179.

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