Transposable elements: an abundant and natural source of regulatory sequences for host genes

R Rebollo, MT Romanish, DL Mager - Annual review of genetics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The fact that transposable elements (TEs) can influence host gene expression was first
recognized more than 50 years ago. However, since that time, TEs have been widely …

Selfish genetic elements, genetic conflict, and evolutionary innovation

JH Werren - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Genomes are vulnerable to selfish genetic elements (SGEs), which enhance their own
transmission relative to the rest of an individual's genome but are neutral or harmful to the …

Mammalian non-LTR retrotransposons: for better or worse, in sickness and in health

VP Belancio, DJ Hedges, P Deininger - Genome research, 2008 - genome.cshlp.org
Transposable elements (TEs) have shared an exceptionally long coexistence with their host
organisms and have come to occupy a significant fraction of eukaryotic genomes. The bulk …

Transposons, genome size, and evolutionary insights in animals

A Canapa, M Barucca, MA Biscotti, M Forconi… - … and genome research, 2015 - karger.com
The relationship between genome size and the percentage of transposons in 161 animal
species evidenced that variations in genome size are linked to the amplification or the …

Biotic interactions and macroevolution: extensions and mismatches across scales and levels

D Jablonski - Evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Clade dynamics in the fossil record broadly fit expectations from the operation of
competition, predation, and mutualism, but data from both modern and ancient systems …

The ecology of the genome—mobile DNA elements and their hosts

JFY Brookfield - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005 - nature.com
The genomes of multicellular eukaryotes provide information that determines the phenotype.
However, not all sequences in the genome are required for this purpose. Other sequences …

The mode and tempo of genome size evolution in eukaryotes

MJ Oliver, D Petrov, D Ackerly, P Falkowski… - Genome …, 2007 - genome.cshlp.org
Eukaryotic genome size varies over five orders of magnitude; however, the distribution is
strongly skewed toward small values. Genome size is highly correlated to a number of …

Scale and hierarchy in macroevolution

D Jablonski - Palaeontology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Scale and hierarchy must be incorporated into any conceptual framework for the study of
macroevolution, ie evolution above the species level. Expansion of temporal and spatial …

Convergent adaptive evolution in marginal environments: unloading transposable elements as a common strategy among mangrove genomes

H Lyu, Z He, CI Wu, S Shi - New phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Several clades of mangrove trees independently invade the interface between land and sea
at the margin of woody plant distribution. As phenotypic convergence among mangroves is …

Can adaptation lead to extinction?

D J. Rankin, A López‐Sepulcre - Oikos, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Ever since JBS Haldane proposed the idea, evolutionary biologists are aware that individual
level adaptations do not necessarily lead to optimal population performance. A few deeply …