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Widespread and frequent horizontal transfers of transposable elements in plants.
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- Mechanisms, detection, and impact of horizontal gene transfer in plant functional evolution.The Plant cell · 2025Review
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- Transcriptome-wide identification and systematic analysis of the Retrotransposon genes and their roles in ginsenoside biosynthesis in Panax ginseng.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Transposon DNA sequences facilitate the tissue-specific gene transfer of circulating tumor DNA between human cells.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- A retrotransposon-derived DNA zip code internalizes myeloma cells through Clathrin-Rab5a-mediated endocytosis.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
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- 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
- Jack of all trades versus master of one: how generalist versus specialist strategies of transposable elements relate to their horizontal transfer between lineages.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2023Review
- Transposon signatures of allopolyploid genome evolution.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Vertical, transgenerational transmission of genetic material occurs through reproduction of living organisms. In addition to vertical inheritance, horizontal gene transfer between reproductively isolated species has recently been shown to be an important, if not dominant, mechanism in the evolution of prokaryotic genomes. In contrast, only a few horizontal transfer (HT) events have been characterized so far in eukaryotes and mainly concern transposable elements (TEs). Whether these are frequent and have a significant impact on genome evolution remains largely unknown. We performed a computational search for highly conserved LTR retrotransposons among 40 sequenced eukaryotic genomes representing the major plant families. We found that 26 genomes (65%) harbor at least one case of horizontal TE transfer (HTT). These transfers concern species as distantly related as palm and grapevine, tomato and bean, or poplar and peach. In total, we identified 32 cases of HTTs, which could translate into more than 2 million among the 13,551 monocot and dicot genera. Moreover, we show that these TEs have remained functional after their transfer, occasionally causing a transpositional burst. This suggests that plants can frequently exchange genetic material through horizontal transfers and that this mechanism may be important in TE-driven genome evolution.
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