ReviewBiochemical Society transactions2020
Mobility connects: transposable elements wire new transcriptional networks by transferring transcription factor binding motifs.
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- Stones in genomic storms: transposable element-driven variation in Prunus fruit trees.Mobile DNA · 2026Review
- The genetic heist: how transposable elements capture and repurpose genes in plants.Genome biology · 2026Review
- A reference-free pipeline for detecting shared transposable elements from pan-genomes to retrace their dynamics in a species.Genome biology · 2026Article
- mariner elements as a model for analyzing the stress response and somatic mobilization activity of transposable elements.Heredity · 2025Review
- Acytota and the evolution of complexity.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2025Review
- Factors determining chromosomal localization of transposable elements in plants.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2025Review
- Gene body methylation regulates gene expression and mediates phenotypic diversity in natural Arabidopsis populations.Nature plants · 2025Article
- Deciphering Complex Interactions Between LTR Retrotransposons and Three Papaver Species Using LTR_Stream.Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2025Article
- The role of mobile DNA elements in the dynamics of plant genome plasticity.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- Detection and classification of long terminal repeat sequences in plant LTR-retrotransposons and their analysis using explainable machine learning.BioData mining · 2024Article
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- The evolution of transposable elements ineLife · 2024Article
- Genome sizes and repeatome evolution in zoantharians (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia).PeerJ · 2023Article
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- Genome-wide analyses of introgression between two sympatric Asian oak species.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- Chromosome-level genome assembly of the aquatic plant Nymphoides indica reveals transposable element bursts and NBS-LRR gene family expansion shedding light on its invasiveness.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2022Article
- Temporal changes in transcripts of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements during rice endosperm development.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) constitute major fractions of plant genomes. Their potential to be mobile provides them with the capacity to cause major genome rearrangements. Those effects are potentially deleterious and enforced the evolution of epigenetic suppressive mechanisms controlling TE activity. However, beyond their deleterious effects, TE insertions can be neutral or even advantageous for the host, leading to long-term retention of TEs in the host genome. Indeed, TEs are increasingly recognized as major drivers of evolutionary novelties by regulating the expression of nearby genes. TEs frequently contain binding motifs for transcription factors and capture binding motifs during transposition, which they spread through the genome by transposition. Thus, TEs drive the evolution and diversification of gene regulatory networks by recruiting lineage-specific targets under the regulatory control of specific transcription factors. This process can explain the rapid and repeated evolution of developmental novelties, such as C4 photosynthesis and a wide spectrum of stress responses in plants. It also underpins the convergent evolution of embryo nourishing tissues, the placenta in mammals and the endosperm in flowering plants. Furthermore, the gene regulatory network underlying flower development has also been largely reshaped by TE-mediated recruitment of regulatory elements; some of them being preserved across long evolutionary timescales. In this review, we highlight the potential role of TEs as evolutionary toolkits in plants by showcasing examples of TE-mediated evolutionary novelties.
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