Background Silencing of transposable elements (TEs) is essential for maintaining genome
stability. Plants use small RNAs (sRNAs) to direct DNA methylation to TEs (RNA-directed …

Plant genomes are unique in an intriguing feature: the range of their size variation is
unprecedented among living organisms. Although polyploidization contributes to this …

Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous inhabitants of eukaryotic genomes and their
proliferation and dispersal shape genome architectures and diversity. Nevertheless, TE …

Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous genetic elements, able to jump from one
location of the genome to another, in all organisms. For this reason, on the one hand, TEs …

Eukaryotic genomes contain large amount of repetitive DNA, most of which is derived from
transposable elements (TEs). Progress has been made to develop computational tools for …

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop and its genome is one of the largest ever
assembled at reference‐quality level. It is 15 Gb, hexaploid, with 85% of transposable …

Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic elements with very high mutation rates that
play important roles in shaping genome architecture and regulating phenotypic variation …

Transposable elements (TEs) are semiautonomous genetic entities that proliferate in
genomes. We recently discovered the Starships, a previously hidden superfamily of giant …

Highlights•Hairpin structures may be important for host recognition of TE mRNAs.•TE cis-
regulatory regions may be the location of arms-races with host defenses.•Old, silenced TEs …

Background Despite decades of research the factors that cause differences in transposable
element (TE) distribution and abundance within and between genomes are still unclear …