Evolutionary pathways and trajectories in antibiotic resistance

F Baquero, JL Martinez, V F. Lanza… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Evolution is the hallmark of life. Descriptions of the evolution of microorganisms have
provided a wealth of information, but knowledge regarding “what happened” has precluded …

Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

MJ Christmas, IM Kaplow, DP Genereux, MX Dong… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

Retrotransposon renaissance in early embryos

Y Guo, TD Li, AJ Modzelewski, H Siomi - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Despite being the predominant genetic elements in mammalian genomes, retrotransposons
were often dismissed as genomic parasites with ambiguous biological significance …

Endogenous retrovirus-derived enhancers confer the transcriptional regulation of human trophoblast syncytialization

M Yu, X Hu, Z Pan, C Du, J Jiang, W Zheng… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) have been proposed as a driving force for the evolution of
the mammalian placenta, however, the contribution of ERVs to placental development and …

A retrotransposon storm marks clinical phenoconversion to late-onset Alzheimer's disease

F Macciardi, M Giulia Bacalini, R Miramontes… - GeroScience, 2022 - Springer
Recent reports have suggested that the reactivation of otherwise transcriptionally silent
transposable elements (TEs) might induce brain degeneration, either by dysregulating the …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin modifier HUSH co-operates with RNA decay factor NEXT to restrict transposable element expression

W Garland, I Müller, M Wu, M Schmid, K Imamura… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are widespread genetic parasites known to be kept under tight
transcriptional control. Here, we describe a functional connection between the mouse …

A butterfly pan-genome reveals that a large amount of structural variation underlies the evolution of chromatin accessibility

AA Ruggieri, L Livraghi, JJ Lewis, E Evans… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Despite insertions and deletions being the most common structural variants (SVs) found
across genomes, not much is known about how much these SVs vary within populations and …

Jump-starting life: balancing transposable element co-option and genome integrity in the developing mammalian embryo

ME Oomen, ME Torres-Padilla - EMBO reports, 2024 - embopress.org
Remnants of transposable elements (TEs) are widely expressed throughout mammalian
embryo development. Originally infesting our genomes as selfish elements and acting as a …

昆虫抗药性相关细胞色素P450 基因的表达调控机制

朱江, 邱星辉 - 昆虫学报, 2021 - insect.org.cn
杀虫剂的频繁持续使用, 必然导致昆虫产生抗药性. 大量研究事例表明参与杀虫剂解毒的细胞
色素P450 (简称P450) 过量表达是昆虫对不同类型杀虫剂产生抗性的重要原因 …

Comprehensive In Silico Analysis of Retrotransposon Insertions within the Survival Motor Neuron Genes Involved in Spinal Muscular Atrophy

A Pinto, C Cunha, R Chaves, MER Butchbach, F Adega - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Transposable elements are DNA sequences that can move throughout the
genome. They play essential roles in gene regulation and function. Spinal muscular atrophy …