The growing knowledge about the influence of transposable elements (TE s) on (a) long‐
term genome and transcriptome evolution;(b) genomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic …

Ever since the pre-molecular era, the birth of new genes with novel functions has been
considered to be a major contributor to adaptive evolutionary innovation. Here, I review the …

Gene duplication provides raw material for functional innovation. Recent advances have
shed light on two fundamental questions regarding gene duplication: which genes tend to …

During the course of evolution, genomes acquire novel genetic elements as sources of
functional and phenotypic diversity, including new genes that originated in recent evolution …

Gene duplication is an important evolutionary mechanism allowing to provide new genetic
material and thus opportunities to acquire new gene functions for an organism, with major …

Gene copies that stem from the mRNAs of parental source genes have long been viewed as
evolutionary dead-ends with little biological relevance. Here we review a range of recent …

Genes are perpetually added to and deleted from genomes during evolution. Thus, it is
important to understand how new genes are formed and how they evolve to be critical …

The origin of novel protein-coding genes de novo was once considered so improbable as to
be impossible. In less than a decade, and especially in the last five years, this view has been …

Ammonia-oxidising archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are important organisms in the
nitrogen cycle, but the mechanisms driving their radiation into diverse ecosystems remain …

Retroposition is widely found to play essential roles in origination of new mammalian and
other animal genes. However, the scarcity of retrogenes in plants has led to the assumption …