ArticleGenes2012
Transposable elements: from DNA parasites to architects of metazoan evolution.
Article in Genes, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Epigenetics in evolution and adaptation to environmental challenges: pathways for disease prevention and treatment.Epigenomics · 2025Review
- Diversity and evolution of transposable elements in the plant-parasitic nematodes.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Acquisition and Exaptation of Endogenous Retroviruses in Mammalian Placenta.Biomolecules · 2023Review
- Intergeneric hybridization of two stickleback species leads to introgression of membrane-associated genes and invasive TE expansion.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- HSV-1 and Endogenous Retroviruses as Risk Factors in Demyelination.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- How the pan-genome is changing crop genomics and improvement.Genome biology · 2021Review
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- Megaevolutionary dynamics and the timing of evolutionary innovation in reptiles.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Transposable element discovery and characterization of LTR-retrotransposon evolutionary lineages in the tropical fruit species Passiflora edulis.Molecular biology reports · 2019Article
- Horizontal transfer of BovB and L1 retrotransposons in eukaryotes.Genome biology · 2018Article
- Gene Expression Order Attributed to Genome Reduction and the Steady Cellular State inFrontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
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- Deep landscape update of dispersed and tandem repeats in the genome model of the red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus, using a series of de novo investigating tools.BMC genomics · 2016Article
- DNA methylation changes facilitated evolution of genes derived from Mutator-like transposable elements.Genome biology · 2016Article
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Abstract
One of the most unexpected insights that followed from the completion of the human genome a decade ago was that more than half of our DNA is derived from transposable elements (TEs). Due to advances in high throughput sequencing technologies it is now clear that TEs comprise the largest molecular class within most metazoan genomes. TEs, once categorised as "junk DNA", are now known to influence genomic structure and function by increasing the coding and non-coding genetic repertoire of the host. In this way TEs are key elements that stimulate the evolution of metazoan genomes. This review highlights several lines of TE research including the horizontal transfer of TEs through host-parasite interactions, the vertical maintenance of TEs over long periods of evolutionary time, and the direct role that TEs have played in generating morphological novelty.
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