Insects are major contributors to our understanding of the interaction between transposable
elements (TEs) and their hosts, owing to seminal discoveries, as well as to the growing …

Highlights•Horizontal transfer of genetic material (especially transposable elements)
between eukaryotes is more frequent than previously thought.•Host-to-virus horizontal …

Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …

Horizontal transfer of transposable elements (HTT) is an important process shaping
eukaryote genomes, yet very few studies have quantified this phenomenon on a large scale …

Most known examples of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between eukaryotes are ancient.
These events are identified primarily using phylogenetic methods on coding regions alone …

Until fairly recently, genome-wide evolutionary dynamics and within-host diversity were
more commonly examined in the context of small viruses than in the context of large double …

Viruses must establish an intimate relationship with their hosts and vectors in order to infect,
replicate, and disseminate; hence, viruses can be considered as symbionts with their hosts …

Viruses are the most abundant biological entities and carry a wide variety of genetic
material, including the ability to encode host-like proteins. Here we show that viruses carry …

Background All living species contain genetic information that was once shared by their
common ancestor. DNA is being inherited through generations by vertical transmission (VT) …

How complex systems theory sheds new light on the adaptive dynamics of viral populations
Viruses are everywhere, infecting all sorts of living organisms, from the tiniest bacteria to the …