Regulation of transposable elements by DNA modifications

Ö Deniz, JM Frost, MR Branco - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Maintenance of genome stability requires control over the expression of transposable
elements (TEs), whose activity can have substantial deleterious effects on the host …

Evolution and diversity of transposable elements in vertebrate genomes

CG Sotero-Caio, RN Platt, A Suh… - Genome biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are selfish genetic elements that mobilize in genomes via
transposition or retrotransposition and often make up large fractions of vertebrate genomes …

Stick insect genomes reveal natural selection's role in parallel speciation

V Soria-Carrasco, Z Gompert, AA Comeault, TE Farkas… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Natural selection can drive the repeated evolution of reproductive isolation, but the genomic
basis of parallel speciation remains poorly understood. We analyzed whole-genome …

Insights into mammalian TE diversity through the curation of 248 genome assemblies

AB Osmanski, NS Paulat, J Korstian, JR Grimshaw… - Science, 2023 - science.org
We examined transposable element (TE) content of 248 placental mammal genome
assemblies, the largest de novo TE curation effort in eukaryotes to date. We found that …

De Novo Assembly and Annotation of the Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus) Repeatome with dnaPipeTE from Raw Genomic Reads and Comparative Analysis with the …

C Goubert, L Modolo, C Vieira… - Genome biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Repetitive DNA, including transposable elements (TEs), is found throughout eukaryotic
genomes. Annotating and assembling the “repeatome” during genome-wide analysis often …

Bursts of transposable elements as an evolutionary driving force

A Belyayev - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
A burst of transposable elements (TEs) is a massive outbreak that may cause radical
genomic rebuilding. This phenomenon has been reported in connection with the formation …

Transposable elements as agents of rapid adaptation may explain the genetic paradox of invasive species

J Stapley, AW Santure, SR Dennis - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid adaptation of invasive species to novel habitats has puzzled evolutionary biologists
for decades, especially as this often occurs in the face of limited genetic variability. Although …

Conflictual speciation: species formation via genomic conflict

B Crespi, P Nosil - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013 - cell.com
A remarkable suite of forms of genomic conflict has recently been implicated in speciation.
We propose that these diverse roles of genomic conflict in speciation processes can be …

Genomic repeat abundances contain phylogenetic signal

S Dodsworth, MW Chase, LJ Kelly, IJ Leitch… - Systematic …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A large proportion of genomic information, particularly repetitive elements, is usually ignored
when researchers are using next-generation sequencing. Here we demonstrate the …

Human transposable elements in Repbase: genomic footprints from fish to humans

KK Kojima - Mobile DNA, 2018 - Springer
Repbase is a comprehensive database of eukaryotic transposable elements (TEs) and
repeat sequences, containing over 1300 human repeat sequences. Recent analyses of …