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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Transposable elements drive rapid phenotypic variation in

Xiao-Min Niu, Yong-Chao Xu, Zi-Wen Li, Yu-Tao Bian, Xing-Hui Hou, Jia-Fu Chen, Yu-Pan Zou, Juan Jiang, Qiong Wu, Song Ge and 2 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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79citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 153 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Xiao-Min NiuState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.
Yong-Chao XuState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1378-4049
Zi-Wen LiState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.
Yu-Tao BianState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.
Xing-Hui HouState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.
Jia-Fu ChenState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0090-1979
Yu-Pan ZouState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.
Juan JiangState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.
Qiong WuState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.
Song GeState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.
Sureshkumar BalasubramanianSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-1057-2606
Ya-Long GuoState Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China; yalong.guo@ibcas.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-4643-4889
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNMonash University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid phenotypic changes in traits of adaptive significance are crucial for organisms to thrive in changing environments. How such phenotypic variation is achieved rapidly, despite limited genetic variation in species that experience a genetic bottleneck is unknown.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalCapsellaDNA Transposable ElementsGenetic LociGenetic VariationPhenotypeMADS Domain ProteinsPlant ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA, PlantRNA StabilityDNA Transposable ElementsMADS Domain ProteinsPlant ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA, PlantBrassicaceaeCapsella rubellanatural variationrapid phenotypic variationtransposable elements

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PMID30877258
PMCPMC6452725
OpenAlexW2922469798

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