Although both are salient features of genomes, at first glance ribosomal DNAs and
transposable elements are genetic elements with not much in common: whereas ribosomal …

Cells are capable of sophisticated information processing. Cellular signal transduction
networks serve to compute data from multiple inputs and make decisions about cellular …

This essay addresses the paradoxes of the complex and highly redundant genomes. The
central theses developed are that:(1) the distinctive feature of complex genomes is the …

Once considered merelyselfish'orparasitic'DNA, transposable elements are today
recognized as being of major biological significance. Not only are these elements a major …

Eukaryotic transposable elements are ubiquitous and widespread mobile genetic entities.
These elements often make up a substantial fraction of the host genomes in which they …

For hundreds of millions of years, perhaps from the very beginning of their evolutionary
history, eukaryotic cells have been habitats and junkyards for countless generations of …

The idea that some genetic factors are able to move around chromosomes emerged more
than 60 years ago when Barbara McClintock first suggested that such elements existed and …

Transposable elements (TEs) were first discovered more than 50 years ago, but were totally
ignored for a long time. Over the last few decades they have gradually attracted increasing …

The nature of the role played by mobile elements in host genome evolution is reassessed
considering numerous recent developments in many areas of biology. It is argued that easy …

Repetitive DNA and in particular transposable elements have been intimately linked to
eukaryotic genomes for millions of years. Once overlooked for being only a collection of …