[HTML][HTML] Taming transposable elements in vertebrates: from epigenetic silencing to domestication

MV Almeida, G Vernaz, ALK Putman, EA Miska - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Transposable element (TE)-derived sequences are ubiquitous in most eukaryotic genomes
known to date. Because their expression and mobility can lead to genomic instability …

Exaptation of Transposable Elements into Novel Cis-Regulatory Elements: Is the Evidence Always Strong?

FSJ de Souza, LF Franchini… - Molecular biology and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic sequences that can jump around the
genome from one location to another, behaving as genomic parasites. TEs have been …

The impact of transposable elements in adaptive evolution

L Schrader, J Schmitz - Molecular Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The growing knowledge about the influence of transposable elements (TE s) on (a) long‐
term genome and transcriptome evolution;(b) genomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic …

Transposable elements and the epigenetic regulation of the genome

RK Slotkin, R Martienssen - Nature reviews genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Overlapping epigenetic mechanisms have evolved in eukaryotic cells to silence the
expression and mobility of transposable elements (TEs). Owing to their ability to recruit the …

[HTML][HTML] Double-edged sword: the evolutionary consequences of the epigenetic silencing of transposable elements

JY Choi, YCG Lee - PLoS genetics, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic parasites that selfishly replicate at the expense of
host fitness. Fifty years of evolutionary studies of TEs have concentrated on the deleterious …

Transposable element exaptation into regulatory regions is rare, influenced by evolutionary age, and subject to pleiotropic constraints

CN Simonti, M Pavličev, JA Capra - Molecular Biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Transposable element (TE)-derived sequences make up approximately half of most
mammalian genomes, and many TEs have been co-opted into gene regulatory elements …

[HTML][HTML] Transposable elements in the mammalian embryo: pioneers surviving through stealth and service

P Gerdes, SR Richardson, DL Mager, GJ Faulkner - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Transposable elements (TEs) are notable drivers of genetic innovation. Over evolutionary
time, TE insertions can supply new promoter, enhancer, and insulator elements to protein …

Evolutionary impact of transposable elements on genomic diversity and lineage-specific innovation in vertebrates

IA Warren, M Naville, D Chalopin, P Levin… - Chromosome …, 2015 - Springer
Since their discovery, a growing body of evidence has emerged demonstrating that
transposable elements are important drivers of species diversity. These mobile elements …

[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 …

Transposable elements: an abundant and natural source of regulatory sequences for host genes

R Rebollo, MT Romanish, DL Mager - Annual review of genetics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The fact that transposable elements (TEs) can influence host gene expression was first
recognized more than 50 years ago. However, since that time, TEs have been widely …