A field guide to eukaryotic transposable elements

JN Wells, C Feschotte - Annual review of genetics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences that propagate within genomes.
Through diverse invasion strategies, TEs have come to occupy a substantial fraction of …

[HTML][HTML] The structural, functional and evolutionary impact of transposable elements in eukaryotes

D Almojil, Y Bourgeois, M Falis, I Hariyani, J Wilcox… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are nearly ubiquitous in eukaryotes. The increase in genomic
data, as well as progress in genome annotation and molecular biology techniques, have …

[HTML][HTML] Ten things you should know about transposable elements

G Bourque, KH Burns, M Gehring, V Gorbunova… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of eukaryotic genomes. However, the
extent of their impact on genome evolution, function, and disease remain a matter of intense …

Dynamic interactions between transposable elements and their hosts

HL Levin, JV Moran - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2011 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) have a unique ability to mobilize to new genomic locations,
and the major advance of second-generation DNA sequencing has provided insights into …

Transposable elements

MG Kidwell - The evolution of the genome, 2005 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter presents an overview on the structure, regulation,
distribution, and dynamics of transposable elements (TEs). TEs are discrete DNA sequences …

Giant transposons in eukaryotes: is bigger better?

IR Arkhipova, IA Yushenova - Genome biology and evolution, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and the
dynamic character of their interaction with host genomes brings about numerous …

Evolution and consequences of transposable elements

JF McDonald - Current opinion in genetics & development, 1993 - Elsevier
Recent studies on transposable elements (TEs) have shed light on the mechanisms that
have shaped their evolution. In addition to accumulating nucleotide substitutions over …

[HTML][HTML] Transposable elements

A Hayward, C Gilbert - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Transposable elements are known by many names, including 'transposons','interspersed
repeats','selfish genetic elements','jumping genes', and 'parasitic DNA', but here we will refer …

DNA transposons and the evolution of eukaryotic genomes

C Feschotte, EJ Pritham - Annu. Rev. Genet., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Transposable elements are mobile genetic units that exhibit broad diversity in their structure
and transposition mechanisms. Transposable elements occupy a large fraction of many …

[HTML][HTML] Transposable elements: major players in shaping genomic and evolutionary patterns

N Colonna Romano, L Fanti - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …