ArticlePLoS biology2006
Horizontal transfer of a plant transposon.
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- Evolutionary Study of Transposable Elements: Structural Characterization and Phylogenomic Profiling in Plant Genomes.Journal of molecular evolution · 2026Review
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- A Novel Mutator-Like Transposable Elements With Unusual Structure and Recent Transpositions in Barley (Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Endophytic bacterial communities are associated with leaf mimicry in the vine Boquila trifoliolata.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Horizontal Transfer of LTR Retrotransposons Contributes to the Genome Diversity ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Sample Sequence Analysis Uncovers Recurrent Horizontal Transfers of Transposable Elements among Grasses.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- Horizontal Gene Transfers in Plants.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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- Lateral transfers of large DNA fragments spread functional genes among grasses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Evolution ofMobile DNA · 2019Article
- Silenced retrotransposons are major rasiRNAs targets in Arabidopsis galls induced by Meloidogyne javanica.Molecular plant pathology · 2018Article
- Helena and BS: Two Travellers between the Genera Drosophila and Zaprionus.Genome biology and evolution · 2018Article
- The Role of Transposable Elements in Speciation.Genes · 2018Review
- Horizontal Transfer of Non-LTR Retrotransposons from Arthropods to Flowering Plants.Molecular biology and evolution · 2018Article
- Genetic Alterations That Do or Do Not Occur Naturally; Consequences for Genome Edited Organisms in the Context of Regulatory Oversight.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2018Article
- Genetic exchange in eukaryotes through horizontal transfer: connected by the mobilome.Mobile DNA · 2018Review
- Distribution, Diversity, and Long-Term Retention of Grass Short Interspersed Nuclear Elements (SINEs).Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
The majority of well-documented cases of horizontal transfer between higher eukaryotes involve the movement of transposable elements between animals. Surprisingly, although plant genomes often contain vast numbers of these mobile genetic elements, no evidence of horizontal transfer of a nuclear-encoded transposon between plant species has been detected to date. The most mutagenic known plant transposable element system is the Mutator system in maize. Mu-like elements (MULEs) are widespread among plants, and previous analysis has suggested that the distribution of various subgroups of MULEs is patchy, consistent with horizontal transfer. We have sequenced portions of MULE transposons from a number of species of the genus Setaria and compared them to each other and to publicly available databases. A subset of these elements is remarkably similar to a small family of MULEs in rice. A comparison of noncoding and synonymous sequences revealed that the observed similarity is not due to selection at the amino acid level. Given the amount of time separating Setaria and rice, the degree of similarity between these elements excludes the possibility of simple vertical transmission of this class of MULEs. This is the first well-documented example of horizontal transfer of any nuclear-encoded genes between higher plants.
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