ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016
Experimental evolution reveals hyperparasitic interactions among transposable elements.
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- Cooperation, competition and enforcement in transposon evolution.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Levels of additive genetic variation vary substantially between species.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Arms races between selfish genetic elements and their host defence in termites.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals.Molecular ecology · 2025Review
- How do parasites and predators choose their victim? A trade-off between quality and vulnerability across antagonistic interactions.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Rapid emergence of non-autonomous elements may stop P-element invasions in the absence of a piRNA-based host defence.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Transposons and accessory genes drive adaptation in a clonally evolving fungal pathogen.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Causes and Consequences of Varying Transposable Element Activity: An Evolutionary Perspective.Annual review of genomics and human genetics · 2024Review
- Systematic identification of cargo-mobilizing genetic elements reveals new dimensions of eukaryotic diversity.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- The composition of piRNA clusters in Drosophila melanogaster deviates from expectations under the trap model.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Reactivation of a somatic errantivirus and germline invasion in Drosophila ovaries.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Population genomics reveals mechanisms and dynamics of de novo expressed open reading frame emergence inGenome research · 2023Article
- The Transposition Rate Has Little Influence on the Plateauing Level of the P-element.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
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- Fast co-evolution of anti-silencing systems shapes the invasiveness of Mu-like DNA transposons in eudicots.The EMBO journal · 2022Article
- Controlling for Variable Transposition Rate with an Age-Adjusted Site Frequency Spectrum.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Patterns of piRNA Regulation in Drosophila Revealed through Transposable Element Clade Inference.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) are repeated DNA sequences that can constitute a substantial part of genomes. Studying TEs' activity, interactions, and accumulation dynamics is thus of major interest to understand genome evolution. Here, we describe the transposition dynamics of cut-and-paste mariner elements during experimental (short- and longer-term) evolution in Drosophila melanogaster Flies with autonomous and nonautonomous mariner copies were introduced in populations containing no active mariner, and TE accumulation was tracked by quantitative PCR for up to 100 generations. Our results demonstrate that (i) active mariner elements are highly invasive and characterized by an elevated transposition rate, confirming their capacity to spread in populations, as predicted by the "selfish-DNA" mechanism; (ii) nonautonomous copies act as parasites of autonomous mariner elements by hijacking the transposition machinery produced by active mariner, which can be considered as a case of hyperparasitism; (iii) this behavior resulted in a failure of active copies to amplify which systematically drove the whole family to extinction in less than 100 generations. This study nicely illustrates how the presence of transposition-competitive variants can deeply impair TE dynamics and gives clues to the extraordinary diversity of TE evolutionary histories observed in genomes.
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