ArticleGenome biology and evolution2010
Pervasive horizontal transfer of rolling-circle transposons among animals.
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- Discovery of numerous novel Helitron-like elements in eukaryote genomes using HELIANO.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- Chiropterans Are a Hotspot for Horizontal Transfer of DNA Transposons in Mammalia.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- P-element invasion fuels molecular adaptation in laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2023Article
- Genetic variation in P-element dysgenic sterility is associated with double-strand break repair and alternative splicing of TE transcripts.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Zebrafish transposable elements show extensive diversification in age, genomic distribution, and developmental expression.Genome research · 2022Article
- The large bat Helitron DNA transposase forms a compact monomeric assembly that buries and protects its covalently bound 5'-transposon end.Molecular cell · 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
- Rapid evolution of piRNA-mediated silencing of an invading transposable element was driven by abundant de novo mutations.Genome research · 2020Article
- On the Population Dynamics of Junk: A Review on the Population Genomics of Transposable Elements.Genes · 2019Review
- Giant Transposons in Eukaryotes: Is Bigger Better?Genome biology and evolution · 2019Review
- Characterization of a novelMobile DNA · 2019Article
- Horizontal acquisition of transposable elements and viral sequences: patterns and consequences.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2018Review
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- Unexpected invasion of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements in viral genomes.Mobile DNA · 2018Article
- Genetic exchange in eukaryotes through horizontal transfer: connected by the mobilome.Mobile DNA · 2018Review
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- A Horizontally Transferred Autonomous Helitron Became a Full Polydnavirus Segment inG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2017Article
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Abstract
Horizontal transfer (HT) of genes is known to be an important mechanism of genetic innovation, especially in prokaryotes. The impact of HT of transposable elements (TEs), however, has only recently begun to receive widespread attention and may be significant due to their mutagenic potential, inherent mobility, and abundance. Helitrons, also known as rolling-circle transposons, are a distinctive subclass of TE with a unique transposition mechanism. Here, we describe the first evidence for the repeated HT of four different families of Helitrons in an unprecedented array of organisms, including mammals, reptiles, fish, invertebrates, and insect viruses. The Helitrons present in these species have a patchy distribution and are closely related (80-98% sequence identity), despite the deep divergence times among hosts. Multiple lines of evidence indicate the extreme conservation of sequence identity is not due to selection, including the highly fragmented nature of the Helitrons identified and the lack of any signatures of selection at the nucleotide level. The presence of horizontally transferred Helitrons in insect viruses, in particular, suggests that this may represent a potential mechanism of transfer in some taxa. Unlike genes, Helitrons that have horizontally transferred into new host genomes can amplify, in some cases reaching up to several hundred copies and representing a substantial fraction of the genome. Because Helitrons are known to frequently capture and amplify gene fragments, HT of this unique group of DNA transposons could lead to horizontal gene transfer and incur dramatic shifts in the trajectory of genome evolution.
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