Constitutive heterochromatin in eukaryotic genomes: A mine of transposable elements

RM Marsano, P Dimitri - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are abundant components of constitutive heterochromatin of
the most diverse evolutionarily distant organisms. TEs enrichment in constitutive …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic variation as a new plant breeding tool: A review

AO Alfalahi, ZT Hussein, A Khalofah, MT Sadder… - Journal of King Saud …, 2022 - Elsevier
Epigenetic variations are inherited or uninherited effects that occur beyond the DNA
sequence of an individual. However, DNA sequence has a critical role in shaping epigenetic …

Major proliferation of transposable elements shaped the genome of the soybean rust pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi

YK Gupta, FC Marcelino-Guimarães, C Lorrain… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
With> 7000 species the order of rust fungi has a disproportionately large impact on
agriculture, horticulture, forestry and foreign ecosystems. The infectious spores are typically …

High-density linkage maps and chromosome level genome assemblies unveil direction and frequency of extensive structural rearrangements in wood white butterflies …

L Höök, K Näsvall, R Vila, C Wiklund… - Chromosome Research, 2023 - Springer
Karyotypes are generally conserved between closely related species and large
chromosome rearrangements typically have negative fitness consequences in …

Teleost genomic repeat landscapes in light of diversification rates and ecology

WB Reinar, OK Tørresen, AJ Nederbragt, M Matschiner… - Mobile DNA, 2023 - Springer
Repetitive DNA make up a considerable fraction of most eukaryotic genomes. In fish,
transposable element (TE) activity has coincided with rapid species diversification. Here, we …

MATES: a deep learning-based model for locus-specific quantification of transposable elements in single cell

R Wang, Y Zheng, Z Zhang, K Song, E Wu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are crucial for genetic diversity and gene regulation. Current
single-cell quantification methods often align multi-mapping reads to either 'best-mapped'or …

Evolution of virus-like features and intrinsically disordered regions in retrotransposon-derived mammalian genes

R Cagliani, D Forni, A Mozzi, R Fuchs… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Several mammalian genes have originated from the domestication of retrotransposons,
selfish mobile elements related to retroviruses. Some of the proteins encoded by these …

Genomes of the Orestias pupfish from the Andean Altiplano shed light on their evolutionary history and phylogenetic relationships within Cyprinodontiformes

P Morales, F Gajardo, C Valdivieso, MA Valladares… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background To unravel the evolutionary history of a complex group, a comprehensive
reconstruction of its phylogenetic relationships is crucial. This requires meticulous taxon …

Transposons and non-coding regions drive the intrafamily differences of genome size in insects

Y Cong, X Ye, Y Mei, K He, F Li - IScience, 2022 - cell.com
Genome size (GS) can vary considerably between phylogenetically close species, but the
landscape of GS changes in insects remain largely unclear. To better understand the …

Massive invasion of organellar DNA drives nuclear genome evolution in Toxoplasma

S Namasivayam, C Sun, AB Bah… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic protist pathogen that infects up to one third of the human
population. This apicomplexan parasite contains three genome sequences: nuclear (65 Mb); …