ArticleJournal of molecular evolution2015
The Specific Requirements for CR1 Retrotransposition Explain the Scarcity of Retrogenes in Birds.
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- Genomic origins and evolution of neo-sex chromosomes in Pacific Island birds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Conserved chromatin and repetitive patterns reveal slow genome evolution in frogs.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Genome Stability Is in the Eye of the Beholder: CR1 Retrotransposon Activity Varies Significantly across Avian Diversity.Genome biology and evolution · 2021Article
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- The multicomparative 2-n-way genome suite.Genome research · 2020Article
- The Female-Specific W Chromosomes of Birds Have Conserved Gene Contents but Are Not Feminized.Genes · 2020Article
- Successful Invasions of Short Internally Deleted Elements (SIDEs) and Its Partner CR1 in Lepidoptera Insects.Genome biology and evolution · 2019Article
- Dynamic evolutionary history and gene content of sex chromosomes across diverse songbirds.Nature ecology & evolution · 2019Article
- The Genome of Blue-Capped Cordon-Bleu Uncovers Hidden Diversity of LTR Retrotransposons in Zebra Finch.Genes · 2019Article
- Distribution of CR1-like transposable element in woodpeckers (Aves Piciformes): Z sex chromosomes can act as a refuge for transposable elements.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2018Article
- The Genomic Impact of Gene Retrocopies: What Have We Learned from Comparative Genomics, Population Genomics, and Transcriptomic Analyses?Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
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- Evolution and Diversity of Transposable Elements in Vertebrate Genomes.Genome biology and evolution · 2017Review
- Accurate Transposable Element Annotation Is Vital When Analyzing New Genome Assemblies.Genome biology and evolution · 2016Article
- Differential repetitive DNA composition in the centromeric region of chromosomes of Amazonian lizard species in the family Teiidae.Comparative cytogenetics · 2016Article
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Abstract
Chicken repeat 1 (CR1) retroposons are the most abundant superfamily of transposable elements in the genomes of birds, crocodilians, and turtles. However, CR1 mobilization remains poorly understood. In this article, I document that the diverse CR1 lineages of land vertebrates share a highly conserved hairpin structure and an octamer microsatellite motif at their very 3' ends. Together with the presence of these same motifs in the tails of CR1-mobilized short interspersed elements, this suggests that the minimum requirement for CR1 transcript recognition and retrotransposition is a complex >50-nt structure. Such a highly specific recognition sequence readily explains why CR1-dominated genomes generally contain very few retrogenes. Conversely, the mammalian richness in retrogenes results from CR1 extinction in their early evolution and subsequent establishment of L1 dominance.
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