Our knowledge of the structure and composition of genomes is rapidly progressing in pace
with their sequencing. The emerging data show that a significant portion of eukaryotic …

Transposable elements are mobile genetic units that exhibit broad diversity in their structure
and transposition mechanisms. Transposable elements occupy a large fraction of many …

It is generally accepted that the wide variation in genome size observed among eukaryotic
species is more closely correlated with the amount of repetitive DNA than with the number of …

The nature of the role played by mobile elements in host genome evolution is reassessed
considering numerous recent developments in many areas of biology. It is argued that easy …

A vertebrate securin (vSecurin) was identified on the basis of its biochemical analogy to the
Pds1p protein of budding yeast and the Cut2p protein of fission yeast. The vSecurin protein …

The activity of transposable elements can be induced by environmental and population
factors and in particular by stresses in various organisms. A consequence of the increase in …

Although the number of protein-coding genes is not highly variable between plant taxa, the
DNA content in their genomes is highly variable, by as much as 2,056-fold from a 1C amount …

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 …

The production of genome sequences has led to another important advance in their
annotation, which is closely linked to the exact determination of their content in terms of …

▪ Abstract The past 10 years have been productive in the characterization of fungal
transposable elements (TEs). All eukaryotic TEs described are found including an …