The impact of transposable elements in adaptive evolution

L Schrader, J Schmitz - Molecular Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The growing knowledge about the influence of transposable elements (TE s) on (a) long‐
term genome and transcriptome evolution;(b) genomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic …

Integrating networks, phylogenomics, and population genomics for the study of polyploidy

PD Blischak, ME Mabry, GC Conant… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Duplication events are regarded as sources of evolutionary novelty, but our understanding
of general trends for the long-term trajectory of additional genomic material is still lacking …

The evolution of transposable elements in Brachypodium distachyon is governed by purifying selection, while neutral and adaptive processes play a minor role

R Horvath, N Minadakis, Y Bourgeois, AC Roulin - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Understanding how plants adapt to changing environments and the potential contribution of
transposable elements (TEs) to this process is a key question in evolutionary genomics …

Environmental response in gene expression and DNA methylation reveals factors influencing the adaptive potential of Arabidopsis lyrata

T Hämälä, W Ning, H Kuittinen, N Aryamanesh… - ELife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Understanding what factors influence plastic and genetic variation is valuable for predicting
how organisms respond to changes in the selective environment. Here, using gene …

Off-target piRNA gene silencing in Drosophila melanogaster rescued by a transposable element insertion

DE Miller, AP Dorador, K Van Vaerenberghe, A Li… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Transposable elements (TE) are selfish genetic elements that can cause harmful mutations.
In Drosophila, it has been estimated that half of all spontaneous visible marker phenotypes …

Transposable Elements Are Important Contributors to Standing Variation in Gene Expression in Capsella Grandiflora

J Uzunović, EB Josephs… - … biology and evolution, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) make up a significant portion of eukaryotic genomes and are
important drivers of genome evolution. However, the extent to which TEs affect gene …

Constant conflict between Gypsy LTR retrotransposons and CHH methylation within a stress‐adapted mangrove genome

Y Wang, W Liang, T Tang - New Phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary dynamics of the conflict between transposable elements (TE s) and their
host genome remain elusive. This conflict will be intense in stress‐adapted plants as stress …

[PDF][PDF] Population genomics of transitions to selfing in Brassicaceae model systems

TM Mattila, B Laenen, T Slotte - Statistical population genomics, 2020 - library.oapen.org
Many plants harbor complex mechanisms that promote outcrossing and efficient pollen
transfer. These include floral adaptations as well as genetic mechanisms, such as molecular …

Epigenetic targeting of transposon relics: beating the dead horses of the genome?

I Sammarco, J Pieters, S Salony, I Toman… - Epigenetics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Transposable elements (TEs) have been seen as selfish genetic elements that can
propagate in a host genome. Their propagation success is however hindered by a …

Controlling for variable transposition rate with an age-adjusted site frequency spectrum

R Horvath, M Menon, M Stitzer… - Genome Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recognition of the important role of transposable elements (TEs) in eukaryotic genomes
quickly led to a burgeoning literature modeling and estimating the effects of selection on …