Chromosome rearrangements and transposable elements

WE Lönnig, H Saedler - Annual review of genetics, 2002 - annualreviews.org
… the major ontogenetic steps are caused andgoverned by any known transposable elements,
… by small TE-mediated chromosome rearrangements thatsuccessively inactivate or activate …

It takes two transposons to tango: transposable-element-mediated chromosomal rearrangements

YHM Gray - Trends in Genetics, 2000 - cell.com
… The indirect action of TEs promotes chromosomal rearrangements by presenting the genome
transposable element excision using ectopic homologous sequences as a repair template …

Gross chromosome rearrangements mediated by transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster

JK Lim, MJ Simmons - Bioessays, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
transposable elements play a significant role in chromosomeTransposable elements occupy
a significant fraction of the … would be expected to have a major impact on genome structure. …

Transposable elements as catalysts for chromosome rearrangements

J Zhang, C Yu, L Krishnaswamy, T Peterson - Plant Chromosome …, 2011 - Springer
… McClintock first showed that transposable elements in maize can induce majortransposable
element system Activator/Dissociation (Ac/Ds) as a catalyst of chromosome rearrangements

Recent reactivation of a pathogenicity-associated transposable element is associated with major chromosomal rearrangements in a fungal wheat pathogen

T Badet, SM Tralamazza, A Feurtey… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
… the elementchromosomal rearrangements. Taken together, we establish the origin,
diversification and reactivation of a highly active TE with likely major consequences for chromosomal

Transposable elements: powerful facilitators of evolution

KR Oliver, WK Greene - Bioessays, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… In our view, TEs are almost essential for significant continuing evolution to occur in most …
, insertions, deletions, and chromosomal rearrangements can adequately account for this …

DNA rearrangements associated with a transposable element in yeast

GS Roeder, GR Fink - Cell, 1980 - cell.com
element resembles procaryotic transposable elements in being able to promote chromosomal
rearrangements. … of the major class of deletions promoted by this element, since only those …

Cytogenetic Mapping of the Retroelements Rex1, Rex3 and Rex6 among Cichlid Fish: New Insights on the Chromosomal Distribution of Transposable Elements

GT Valente, J Mazzuchelli, IA Ferreira… - … and Genome Research, 2011 - karger.com
… The Rex elements were also concentrated in the largest chromosome pair of the Nile tilapia,
… possible involvement of TEs with chromosome rearrangements. Besides general patterns of …

Potential role of transposable elements in the rapid reorganization of the Fusarium oxysporum genome

JM Davière, T Langin, MJ Daboussi - Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2001 - Elsevier
… from chromosome rearrangements, the object of this paper. … mechanism entailing chromosomal
rearrangements is ectopic … The main goal of this study was to evaluate the contribution …

Transposable elements

MG Kidwell - The evolution of the genome, 2005 - Elsevier
… Generalized structures of the main types of transposable elements. Class I elements are …
Selection is also expected to act against the gross chromosomal rearrangements caused by …