Evolutionary characteristics of intergenic transcribed regions indicate widespread noisy transcription in the Poaceae
John P. Lloyd, Megan J. Bowman, Christina Brady Del Azodi…·Shin‐Han Shiu
The paper evaluates intergenic transcribed regions (ITRs) in Poaceae species to determine if they represent functional genes or noisy transcription, finding most ITRs lack conservation and are likely nonfunctional.