Horizontal gene transfer is increasingly described between bacteria and animals. Such
transfers that are vertically inherited have the potential to influence the evolution of animals …

Comparative genomics has revealed that major vertebrate lineages contain quantitatively
and qualitatively different populations of retrotransposable elements and DNA transposons …

The history of transposable elements over evolutionary time can often be partially
reconstructed on the basis of genome analysis. In this study, we identified and extensively …

Transposable elements (TEs) are nearly ubiquitous among eukaryotic genomes, but TE
contents vary dramatically among phylogenetic lineages. Several mechanisms have been …

Transposable elements (TEs) are the major components of eukaryotic genomes. Their
propensity to densely populate and in some cases invade the genomes of plants and …

Retrotransposons, specifically Alu and L1 elements, have been especially successful in their
expansion throughout primate genomes. While most of these elements integrate through an …

Background Horizontal transfer (HT) of transposable elements (TEs) into a new genome is
considered as an important force to drive genome variation and biological innovation …

More than any other genome components, Transposable Elements (TEs) have the capacity
to move across species barriers through Horizontal Transfer (HT), with substantial …

The genome of the gray short-tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica is notable for its large
size (∼ 3.6 Gb). We characterized nearly 500 families of interspersed repeats from the …

LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposons represent the most abundant family of non-LTR
retrotransposons in virtually all mammals. The only currently known exception is Platypus …