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

Summary

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

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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