Background Rotifers of the class Bdelloidea are microscopic freshwater invertebrates best
known for: their capacity for anhydrobiosis; the lack of males and meiosis; and for the ability …

Cassandra transposable elements belong to a specific group of terminal-repeat
retrotransposons in miniature (TRIM). Although Cassandra TRIM elements have been found …

The fish retrotransposable element Zebulon encodes a reverse transcriptase and a carboxy-
terminal restriction enzyme-like endonuclease, and is related phylogenetically to site …

A large fraction of the genomes of grasses, members of the family Graminae, is composed of
retrotransposons. These elements resemble animal retroviruses in their structure and …

Abstract Background Penelope-like elements (PLEs) are an enigmatic group of
retroelements sharing a common ancestor with telomerase reverse transcriptases. In our …

Analysls of aberrant ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeats of Bombyx mori resulted In the
discovery of a 4.8 kllobase retrotransposable element, Pao. Approximately 40 copies of Pao …

Retrotransposons are ubiquitous and major components of plant genomes, and are
characteristically retroviral‐like in their genomic structure and in the major proteins encoded …

This study aims to analyze the diversity of Ty1-copia retrotransposons in 18 taxa of
Hypochaeris, including two Old World species H. maculata (2n= 2x= 10) and H. angustifolia …

Gene duplication is a major driver of organismal evolution. Gene retroposition is a
mechanism of gene duplication whereby a gene's transcript is used as a template to …

Centromeric retrotransposons (CRs) are important component of the functional centromeres
of rice chromosomes. To track the evolution of the CR elements in genus Oryza, we …