ReviewGenome biology and evolution2012
Horizontal transposon transfer in eukarya: detection, bias, and perspectives.
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- Evolution ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Horizontal gene transfer in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other Saccharomycotina yeasts: a review.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Review
- Transposable elements hitchhike on Starships across fungal genomes.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Phylogenetic relatedness rather than aquatic habitat fosters horizontal transfer of transposable elements in animals.Genome research · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal Tracking of Three Novel Transposable Element Invasions in Drosophila melanogaster over the Last 30 Years.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Double trouble: two retrotransposons triggered a cascade of invasions in Drosophila species within the last 50 years.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Horizontal Transfer and Recombination Fuel Ty4 Retrotransposon Evolution in Saccharomyces.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- GenomeDelta: detecting recent transposable element invasions without repeat library.Genome biology · 2024Article
- Spoink, a LTR retrotransposon, invaded D. melanogaster populations in the 1990s.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- Genome-wide analysis of horizontal transfer in non-model wild species from a natural ecosystem reveals new insights into genetic exchange in plants.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- maT and mosquito transposons in cnidarians: evolutionary history and intraspecific differences.Functional & integrative genomics · 2023Article
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- Horizontal Transposon Transfer and Their Ecological Drivers: The Case of Flower-breeding Drosophila.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Chiropterans Are a Hotspot for Horizontal Transfer of DNA Transposons in Mammalia.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Transposable Elements Co-Option in Genome Evolution and Gene Regulation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Distinct composition and amplification dynamics of transposable elements in sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.).The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2022Article
- The genome sequence of the lesser marbled fritillary, Brenthis ino, and evidence for a segregating neo-Z chromosome.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- On the Base Composition of Transposable Elements.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Migrators within migrators: exploring transposable element dynamics in the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.Mobile DNA · 2022Article
- Interpopulation variation of transposable elements of the hAT superfamily in Drosophila willistoni (Diptera: Drosophilidae): in-situ approach.Genetics and molecular biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The genetic similarity observed among species is normally attributed to the existence of a common ancestor. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that the exchange of genetic material is not limited to the transfer from parent to offspring but can also occur through horizontal transfer (HT). Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA fragments with an innate propensity for HT; they are mobile and possess parasitic characteristics that allow them to exist and proliferate within host genomes. However, horizontal transposon transfer (HTT) is not easily detected, primarily because the complex TE life cycle can generate phylogenetic patterns similar to those expected for HTT events. The increasingly large number of new genome projects, in all branches of life, has provided an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate the TE content and HTT events in these species, although a standardized method of HTT detection is required before trends in the HTT rates can be evaluated in a wide range of eukaryotic taxa and predictions about these events can be made. Thus, we propose a straightforward hypothesis test that can be used by TE specialists and nonspecialists alike to discriminate between HTT events and natural TE life cycle patterns. We also discuss several plausible explanations and predictions for the distribution and frequency of HTT and for the inherent biases of HTT detection. Finally, we discuss some of the methodological concerns for HTT detection that may result in the underestimation and overestimation of HTT rates during eukaryotic genome evolution.
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