Defense genes gather in diverse types of genomic islands in bacteria and provide immunity
against viruses and other genetic mobile elements. Here, we disclose pipolins, previously …

Motivation Detailed and accurate analysis of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in bacteria is
essential to deal with the current threat of multiresistant microbes. The overwhelming use of …

Motivation Detailed and accurate analysis of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in bacteria is
essential to deal with the current threat of multiresistant microbes. The overwhelming use of …

Self-synthesizing transposons are integrative mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that encode
their own B-family DNA polymerase (PolB). Discovered a few years ago, they are proposed …

63 Mobile genetic elements (MGE), comprising bacteriophages, transposons, plasmids, 64
and insertion sequences, contribute to the great plasticity of the bacterial genome, 65 …

Integrons are bacterial genetic elements that capture, stockpile and modulate the expression
of genes encoded in integron cassettes. Mobile Integrons (MI) are borne on plasmids, acting …

Bacteria protect themselves against infection using multiple defensive systems that move by
horizontal gene transfer and accumulate in genomic 'defense islands'. A recent study …

Integrons are genetic elements, found among diverse bacteria and archaea, that capture
and rearrange gene cassettes to rapidly generate genetic diversity and drive adaptation …

Bacteriophages and other mobile genetic elements (MGEs) pose a significant threat to
bacteria, subjecting them to constant attacks. In response, bacteria have evolved a …

Pipolins constitute a new group of self-synthesizing or self-replicating mobile genetic
elements (MGEs), encoding for their own replicative DNA polymerase B. These elements …