Trematode parthenitae have long been believed to form clonal populations, but clonal
diversity has been discovered in this asexual stage of the lifecycle. Clonal polymorphism in …

Background Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINES) are the most common
transposable element (TE) in almost all metazoan genomes examined. In most LINE …

Non-LTR retrotransposons are common in vertebrate genomes and although present in
invertebrates they appear at a much lower frequency. The cephalochordate amphioxus is …

A cloned repetitive sequence, pAvKB30, obtained from an Avena vaviloviana (AB genome)
genomic library, along with two polymerase chain reaction products derived from the …

Gene duplication by retrotransposition duplicates only the coding and untranslated regions
of a gene and, thus, biases retroduplicated genes toward having different expression …

Retrotransposons make up a major fraction–sometimes more than 40%–of all plant
genomes investigated so far. We have isolated the reverse transcriptase domains of the Ty1 …

We cloned and characterized Ty1-copia group retrotransposons in persimmon (Diospyros
kaki Thunb.). Genomic DNA or methyl jasmonate (MJA)-treated cDNA were used as …

Abstract Background Transposable elements (TEs) make up a large part of eukaryotic
genomes. Due to their repetitive nature and to the fact that they harbour regulatory signals …

Simple Summary Long terminal repeat retrotransposons (LTR-RTNs) are vital in genome
evolution and diversity. The compact genomes of Tetraodontiformes provide an excellent …

Retrotransposons play an important role in the evolution of genomic structure and function.
Here we report on the characterization of a novel retrotransposon called kangaroo from the …