Tracking Down the Jumping Genes of Maize (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Tracking Down the Jumping Genes of Maize

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UC Davis graduate student Michelle Stitzer records the GPS coordinates of an individual Zea mays plant in a field in eastern Jalisco, Mexico, to investigate hybridization between maize and its wild relative teosinte. Stitzer's work has helped create a new genomic map of maize which for the first time locates the transposons or "jumping genes" that make up a major part of the maize genome.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra/UC Davis

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