1 The First Ten Years of Plant Genome Sequencing
and Prospects for the Next Decade ............................ 1
Lex E. Flagel and Benjamin K. Blackman
2 Plant Transposable Elements: Biology and Evolution .......... 17
Eduard Kejnovsky, Jennifer S. Hawkins, and Cédric
Feschotte
3 The Impact of Transposable Elements on Gene and Genome
Evolution ................................................... 35
R. Keith Slotkin, Saivageethi Nuthikattu, and Ning Jiang
4 Centromeres: Sequences, Structure, and Biology .............. 59
Cory D. Hirsch and Jiming Jiang
5 Telomeres and Their Biology ................................. 71
Maria F. Siomos and Karel Riha
6 The Biology and Dynamics of Plant Small RNAs ................ 83
Tzuu-fen Lee, Pingchuan Li, and Blake C. Meyers
7 Variation in Rates of Molecular Evolution in Plants and
Implications for Estimating Divergence Times ............... 103
J. Gordon Burleigh
8 Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Plant Genomes ............. 113
Sabarinath Subramaniam and Michael Freeling
9 Plant Mitochondrial Genome Diversity: The Genomics
Revolution ................................................. 123
Jeffrey P. Mower, Daniel B. Sloan, and Andrew J. Alverson
10 Plastid Genome Diversity ................................... 145
Paul G. Wolf
11 Duplications and Turnover in Plant Genomes ................. 155
Michael S. Barker, Gregory J. Baute, and Shao-Lun Liu
12 Concerted Evolution of Multigene Families and
Homoeologous Recombination ................................. 171
Gonzalo Nieto Feliner and Josep A. Rosselló
13 Synteny and Genomic Rearrangements ......................... 195
A.H. Paterson, X. Wang, H. Tang, and Т.Н. Lee
14 The Variation of Base Composition in Plant Genomes ......... 209
Petr Šmarda and Petr Bureš
15 Chromatin Modifications in Plants .......................... 237
Xiaoyu Zhang
16 Evolutionary Significance of Epigenetic Variation .......... 257
Christina L. Richards, Koen J.F. Verhoeven, and Oliver
Bossdorf
Index ......................................................... 275
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