Transposition favors the generation of large effect mutations that may facilitate rapid adaption

L Quadrana, M Etcheverry, A Gilly, E Caillieux… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile parasitic sequences that have been repeatedly
coopted during evolution to generate new functions and rewire gene regulatory networks …

Transposable Elements Contribute to the Adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana

ZW Li, XH Hou, JF Chen, YC Xu, Q Wu… - Genome Biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic elements with very high mutation rates that
play important roles in shaping genome architecture and regulating phenotypic variation …

Epigenetic silencing of transposable elements: a trade-off between reduced transposition and deleterious effects on neighboring gene expression

JD Hollister, BS Gaut - Genome research, 2009 - genome.cshlp.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous genomic parasites. The deleterious
consequences of the presence and activity of TEs have fueled debate about the evolutionary …

Epigenetic control of transposon transcription and mobility in Arabidopsis

E Bucher, J Reinders, M Mirouze - Current opinion in plant biology, 2012 - Elsevier
The mobility of genetic elements called transposable elements (TEs) was discovered half a
century ago by Barbara McClintock. Although she had recognized them as chromosomal …

Genomic impact of stress-induced transposable element mobility in Arabidopsis

D Roquis, M Robertson, L Yu, M Thieme… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) have long been known to be major contributors to plant
evolution, adaptation and crop domestication. Stress-induced TE mobilization is of particular …

Reconstructing de novo silencing of an active plant retrotransposon

A Marí-Ordóñez, A Marchais, M Etcheverry, A Martin… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) contribute to genome size, organization and evolution. In
plants, their activity is primarily controlled by transcriptional gene silencing (TGS), usually …

What makes up plant genomes: The vanishing line between transposable elements and genes

D Zhao, AA Ferguson, N Jiang - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2016 - Elsevier
The ultimate source of evolution is mutation. As the largest component in plant genomes,
transposable elements (TEs) create numerous types of mutations that cannot be mimicked …

A triptych of the evolution of plant transposable elements

MI Tenaillon, JD Hollister, BS Gaut - Trends in plant science, 2010 - cell.com
Transposable elements (TEs) constitute the majority of angiosperm DNA, but the processes
that govern their accumulation remain mysterious. Here we discuss the three major forces …

Effects of recombination rate and gene density on transposable element distributions in Arabidopsis thaliana

SI Wright, N Agrawal, TE Bureau - Genome Research, 2003 - genome.cshlp.org
Transposable elements (TEs) comprise a major component of eukaryotic genomes, and
exhibit striking deviations from random distribution across the genomes studied, including …

The epigenetic control of the transposable element life cycle in plant genomes and beyond

P Liu, D Cuerda-Gil, S Shahid… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Within the life cycle of a living organism, another life cycle exists for the selfish genome
inhabitants, which are called transposable elements (TEs). These mobile sequences invade …