Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans. The divergence between human
and chimpanzee ancestors dates to approximately 6, 5–7, 5 million years ago. Genetic …

Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) and related genetic elements form 504 distinct
families and occupy~ 8% of human genome. Recent success of high-throughput …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

In contrast with former definitions of life limited to membrane-bound cellular life forms which
feed, grow, metabolise and replicate (i) a role of viruses as genetic symbionts,(ii) along with …

Transposable elements (TEs) are present in all organisms and nearly half of the human and
mouse genome is derived from ancient transpositions. This fact alone suggests that TEs …

We report the first genome-wide comparison of in vivo promoter activities of a group of
human-specific endogenous retroviruses in healthy and cancerous germ line tissues. To this …

Retrotransposition of L1 LINEs (long interspersed elements) continues to sculpt the human
genome. However, because recent insertions are dimorphic, they are not fully represented …

Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are the remnants of ancient germ cell infection by
exogenous retroviruses and occupy up to 8% of the human genome. It has been suggested …

Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINE-1, L1) constitute a large family of mammalian
retrotransposons that have been replicating and evolving in mammals for more than 100 …

Type 1 long-interspersed nuclear elements (L1s) are autonomous retrotransposable
elements that retain the potential for activity in the human genome but are suppressed by …