Transposable elements as agents of rapid adaptation may explain the genetic paradox of invasive species

J Stapley, AW Santure, SR Dennis - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid adaptation of invasive species to novel habitats has puzzled evolutionary biologists
for decades, especially as this often occurs in the face of limited genetic variability. Although …

Transposable elements: powerful contributors to angiosperm evolution and diversity

KR Oliver, JA McComb… - Genome biology and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are a dominant feature of most flowering plant genomes.
Together with other accepted facilitators of evolution, accumulating data indicate that TEs …

Evolution and diversity of transposable elements in fish genomes

F Shao, M Han, Z Peng - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic sequences that can move, multiply, and often
form sizable fractions of vertebrate genomes. Fish belong to a unique group of vertebrates …

Retrotransposons in plant genomes: structure, identification, and classification through bioinformatics and machine learning

S Orozco-Arias, G Isaza, R Guyot - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic units able to move within the genome of virtually
all organisms. Due to their natural repetitive numbers and their high structural diversity, the …

Recent transposable element bursts are associated with the proximity to genes in a fungal plant pathogen

U Oggenfuss, D Croll - PLoS Pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The activity of transposable elements (TEs) contributes significantly to pathogen genome
evolution. TEs often destabilize genome integrity but may also confer adaptive variation in …

Ectomycorrhizal ecology is imprinted in the genome of the dominant symbiotic fungus Cenococcum geophilum

M Peter, A Kohler, RA Ohm, A Kuo, J Krützmann… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The most frequently encountered symbiont on tree roots is the ascomycete Cenococcum
geophilum, the only mycorrhizal species within the largest fungal class Dothideomycetes, a …

Horizontal acquisition of transposable elements and viral sequences: patterns and consequences

C Gilbert, C Feschotte - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2018 - Elsevier
It is becoming clear that most eukaryotic transposable elements (TEs) owe their evolutionary
success in part to horizontal transfer events, which enable them to invade new species …

Relaxed purifying selection in autopolyploids drives transposable element over-accumulation which provides variants for local adaptation

P Baduel, L Quadrana, B Hunter, K Bomblies… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Polyploidization is frequently associated with increased transposable element (TE) content.
However, what drives TE dynamics following whole genome duplication (WGD) and the …

Epigenetically facilitated mutational assimilation: epigenetics as a hub within the inclusive evolutionary synthesis

E Danchin, A Pocheville, O Rey, B Pujol… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of debate about the existence of non‐genetic inheritance, the focus is now
slowly shifting towards dissecting its underlying mechanisms. Here, we propose a new …

Stress-induced mutagenesis: implications in cancer and drug resistance

DM Fitzgerald, PJ Hastings… - Annual review of cancer …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Genomic instability underlies many cancers and generates genetic variation that drives
cancer initiation, progression, and therapy resistance. In contrast with classical assumptions …