Transposable elements are mobile DNA sequences that play a crucial role in plant genome architecture and gene regulation. They drive genome size variation and affect gene expression by altering ...

There are numerous ways that mobile genetic elements can affect evolution. For example, many transposable elements (TEs), often called transposons, contain genes that code for their jumping or copying ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago may have helped create conditions for ants to diversify ...

An international scientific project that compares the genomes of 240 living species of mammals has identified transposable elements (TEs)—genes that can change their position within a genome, creating ...

A pan-genomic analysis of 61 tomato accessions shows how duplication, transposable elements and structural variation shaped ...

Transposable Elements: From Evolution to Engineering is a Keystone Symposium connecting researchers around transposable elements, genome evolution, genome engineering and their implications for human ...

To understand how organisms are related, researchers use molecular information to construct phylogenetic trees. Most of the time, scientists use thousands of protein-coding sequences to determine ...

New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that transposable elements in various cancers potentially may be used to harness novel immunotherapies against tumors ...

Sankey diagram illustrating the inferred functions of TE-proximal genes. The width of connections between each vertical block represents the gene count, delineating GO term classifications associated ...