Transposable elements: major players in shaping genomic and evolutionary patterns

N Colonna Romano, L Fanti - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous genetic elements, able to jump from one
location of the genome to another, in all organisms. For this reason, on the one hand, TEs …

Transposable elements: powerful facilitators of evolution

KR Oliver, WK Greene - Bioessays, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Transposable elements (TEs) are powerful facilitators of genome evolution, and hence of
phenotypic diversity as they can cause genetic changes of great magnitude and variety. TEs …

Ten things you should know about transposable elements

G Bourque, KH Burns, M Gehring, V Gorbunova… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of eukaryotic genomes. However, the
extent of their impact on genome evolution, function, and disease remain a matter of intense …

Transposable elements as tools for reshaping the genome: it is a huge world after all!

S Bire, F Rouleux-Bonnin - Mobile Genetic Elements: Protocols and …, 2012 - Springer
Transposable elements (TEs) are discrete pieces of DNA that can move from one site to
another within genomes and sometime between genomes. They are found in all major …

The structural, functional and evolutionary impact of transposable elements in eukaryotes

D Almojil, Y Bourgeois, M Falis, I Hariyani, J Wilcox… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are nearly ubiquitous in eukaryotes. The increase in genomic
data, as well as progress in genome annotation and molecular biology techniques, have …

The necessary junk: new functions for transposable elements

AR Muotri, MCN Marchetto, NG Coufal… - Human molecular …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements have been shaping the genome throughout evolution, contributing
to the creation of new genes and sophisticated regulatory network systems. Today, most of …

Mammalian transposable elements and their impacts on genome evolution

RN Platt, MW Vandewege, DA Ray - Chromosome Research, 2018 - Springer
Transposable elements (TEs) are genetic elements with the ability to mobilize and replicate
themselves in a genome. Mammalian genomes are dominated by TEs, which can reach …

Mobilizing diversity: transposable element insertions in genetic variation and disease

KA O'Donnell, KH Burns - Mobile DNA, 2010 - Springer
Transposable elements (TEs) comprise a large fraction of mammalian genomes. A number
of these elements are actively jumping in our genomes today. As a consequence, these …

The plastic genome: The impact of transposable elements on gene functionality and genomic structural variations

M Fambrini, G Usai, A Vangelisti, F Mascagni… - Genesis, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences that can change their position within
genomes. TEs are present in most organisms and can be an important genomic component …

Transposable elements as genetic accelerators of evolution: contribution to genome size, gene regulatory network rewiring and morphological innovation

H Nishihara - Genes & Genetic Systems, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In the current era, as a growing number of genome sequence assemblies have been
reported in animals, an in-depth analysis of transposable elements (TEs) is one of the most …