Avian genomes are characterized as being more compact than other amniotes, with less
diversity and density of transposable elements (TEs). In addition, birds usually show bimodal …

Rotifers of the class Bdelloidea, microscopic freshwater invertebrates, possess a highly-
diversified repertoire of transposon families, which, however, occupy less than 4% of …

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

Rex1, together with the related Babar elements, represents a new family of non-long-
terminal-repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons from fish, which might be related to the CR1 …

A simple tissue culture protocol was developed for efficient plant regeneration from young
inflorescence-derived calli in wild barley, Hordeum brevisubulatum (Trin.) Link, an important …

We have used the degenerated oligonucleotide primers-PCR (DOP-PCR) technique to
determine the presence of Ty1/copia-related retrotransposons in the wild species of tomato …

Multiple origins of the same polyploid species pose the question: Does evolution repeat
itself in these independently formed lineages? Tragopogon is a unique evolutionary model …

Background Retrotransposons comprise a ubiquitous and abundant class of eukaryotic
transposable elements. All members of this class rely on reverse transcriptase activity to …

Retrotransposons are present in high copy number in many plant genomes. They show a
considerable degree of sequence heterogeneity and insertional polymorphism, both within …