Genome Evolution Course – 2009-2010
Evolution of Selfish DNA
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Presentation: PPT
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Essay version (soon..)
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Topics
- The C-value paradox
- From selfish genes to selfish
DNA
- Jumping genes and the dynamic
genome
- Transposable elements and the
human genome
- Structure of
transposable elements
- Content of transposable
elements in the human genome
- Benefits of
transposable elements
Suggested readings
- Orgel,
L. E. & Crick, F. H. Selfish DNA: the ultimate parasite. Nature 284,
604-7 (1980).
- Doolittle, W. F. & Sapienza, C. Selfish genes, the phenotype paradigm and
genome evolution. Nature 284, 601-3 (1980).
Assignment
Back to the Genome
Evolution Course.
Itai Yanai, yanai@technion.ac.il