Giant Transposons in Eukaryotes: Is Bigger Better?

Transposable elements and polyploid evolution in animals

(2018) Fernando Rodriguez et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Horizontal acquisition of transposable elements and viral sequences: patterns and consequences

(2018) Clément Gilbert et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

A Completely Reimplemented MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit with a New HHpred Server at its Core

(2018) Lukas Zimmermann et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Helraiser intermediates provide insight into the mechanism of eukaryotic replicative transposition

(2018) Ivana Grabundzija et al.   Nature Communications

Sequential induction of three recombination directionality factors directs assembly of tripartite integrative and conjugative elements

(2018) Timothy L. Haskett et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genetic exchange in eukaryotes through horizontal transfer: connected by the mobilome

(2018) Gabriel Luz Wallau et al.   Mobile DNA

Fusion of piggyBac-like transposons and herpesviruses occurs frequently in teleosts

(2018) Yusuke Inoue et al.   Zoological Letters

The genome of Schmidtea mediterranea and the evolution of core cellular mechanisms

(2018) Markus Alexander Grohme et al.   NATURE

Lateral gene transfer between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2017) Karsten B. Sieber et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Evolution and Diversity of Transposable Elements in Vertebrate Genomes

(2017) Cibele G. Sotero-Caio et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Giant Reverse Transcriptase-Encoding Transposable Elements at Telomeres

(2017) Irina R. Arkhipova et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Massive horizontal transfer of transposable elements in insects

(2017) Jean Peccoud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

LTR-Retrotransposons from Bdelloid Rotifers Capture Additional ORFs Shared between Highly Diverse Retroelement Types

(2017) Fernando Rodriguez et al.   Viruses-Basel

Complete fusion of a transposon and herpesvirus created the Teratorn mobile element in medaka fish

(2017) Yusuke Inoue et al.   Nature Communications

Marine origin of retroviruses in the early Palaeozoic Era

(2017) Pakorn Aiewsakun et al.   Nature Communications

Viruses as vectors of horizontal transfer of genetic material in eukaryotes

(2017) Clément Gilbert et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

A Horizontally Transferred Autonomous Helitron Became a Full Polydnavirus Segment in Cotesia vestalis

(2017) Pedro Heringer et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Using bioinformatic and phylogenetic approaches to classify transposable elements and understand their complex evolutionary histories

(2017) Irina R. Arkhipova   Mobile DNA

The repetitive landscape of the 5100 Mbp barley genome

(2017) Thomas Wicker et al.   Mobile DNA

The Distribution, Evolution, and Roles of Gene Transfer Agents in Prokaryotic Genetic Exchange

(2017) Andrew S. Lang et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Sleeping Beauty transposition: from biology to applications

(2016) Suneel A. Narayanavari et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Interchromosomal core duplicons drive both evolutionary instability and disease susceptibility of the Chromosome 8p23.1 region

(2016) Kiana Mohajeri et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Assembly and transfer of tripartite integrative and conjugative genetic elements

(2016) Timothy L. Haskett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Floating (Pathogenicity) Island: A Genomic Dessert

(2016) Richard P. Novick et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The Double-Stranded DNA Virosphere as a Modular Hierarchical Network of Gene Sharing

(2016) Jaime Iranzo et al.   mBio

A Helitron transposon reconstructed from bats reveals a novel mechanism of genome shuffling in eukaryotes

(2016) Ivana Grabundzija et al.   Nature Communications

Horizontal DNA Transfer Mechanisms of Bacteria as Weapons of Intragenomic Conflict

(2016) Nicholas J. Croucher et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Single-stranded DNA viruses employ a variety of mechanisms for integration into host genomes

(2015) Mart Krupovic et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Integrative and Conjugative Elements (ICEs): What They Do and How They Work

(2015) Christopher M. Johnson et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Horizontal transfer of a non-autonomous Helitron among insect and viral genomes

(2015) Brad S Coates   BMC GENOMICS

The Turbulent Network Dynamics of Microbial Evolution and the Statistical Tree of Life

(2015) Eugene V. Koonin   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes

(2015) Chuan Ku et al.   NATURE

Horizontal gene transfer: building the web of life

(2015) Shannon M. Soucy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

dUTPase: the frequently overlooked enzyme encoded by many retroviruses

(2015) Amnon Hizi et al.   Retrovirology

Origins and evolution of viruses of eukaryotes: The ultimate modularity

(2015) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   VIROLOGY

Fungal metabolic gene clusters—caravans traveling across genomes and environments

(2015) Jennifer H. Wisecaver et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Phage-Inducible Chromosomal Islands: A Family of Highly Evolved Molecular Parasites

(2015) José R. Penadés et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Conservation of major and minor jelly-roll capsid proteins in Polinton (Maverick) transposons suggests that they are bona fide viruses

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   Biology Direct

Highly expressed captured genes and cross-kingdom domains present in Helitrons create novel diversity in Pleurotus ostreatus and other fungi

(2014) Raúl Castanera et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transposable element-assisted evolution and adaptation to host plant within the Leptosphaeria maculans-Leptosphaeria biglobosa species complex of fungal pathogens

(2014) Jonathan Grandaubert et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Diversity of Prokaryotic DDE Transposases of the Mutator Superfamily, Insertion Specificity, and Association with Conjugation Machineries

(2014) Romain Guérillot et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Eukaryotic Penelope-Like Retroelements Encode Hammerhead Ribozyme Motifs

(2014) Amelia Cervera et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Polintons: a hotbed of eukaryotic virus, transposon and plasmid evolution

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer in the acquisition of novel traits by metazoans

(2014) Luis Boto   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution and gene capture in ancient endogenous retroviruses - insights from the crocodilian genomes

(2014) Amanda Y Chong et al.   Retrovirology

piggyBac as a high-capacity transgenesis and gene-therapy vector in human cells and mice

(2013) R. Li et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

(2013) Jean-François Flot et al.   NATURE

Genome-Wide Survey and Comparative Analysis of LTR Retrotransposons and Their Captured Genes in Rice and Sorghum

(2013) Shu-Ye Jiang et al.   PLoS One

Endonuclease-containing Penelope retrotransposons in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga exhibit unusual structural features and play a role in expansion of host gene families

(2013) Irina R Arkhipova et al.   Mobile DNA

A widespread occurrence of extra open reading frames in plant Ty3/gypsy retrotransposons

(2012) Veronika Steinbauerová et al.   GENETICA

Gene transfer agents: phage-like elements of genetic exchange

(2012) Andrew S. Lang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Easyfig: a genome comparison visualizer

(2011) M. J. Sullivan et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer from Circular Single-stranded DNA Viruses to Eukaryotic Genomes

(2011) Huiquan Liu et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Pack-Mutator-like transposable elements (Pack-MULEs) induce directional modification of genes through biased insertion and DNA acquisition

(2011) N. Jiang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Virophage at the Origin of Large DNA Transposons

(2011) M. G. Fischer et al.   SCIENCE

Pervasive Horizontal Transfer of Rolling-Circle Transposons among Animals

(2010) Jainy Thomas et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Networks of Gene Sharing among 329 Proteobacterial Genomes Reveal Differences in Lateral Gene Transfer Frequency at Different Phylogenetic Depths

(2010) T. Kloesges et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A role for host–parasite interactions in the horizontal transfer of transposons across phyla

(2010) Clément Gilbert et al.   NATURE

Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

(2010) Li-Jun Ma et al.   NATURE

Integrative and conjugative elements: mosaic mobile genetic elements enabling dynamic lateral gene flow

(2010) Rachel A. F. Wozniak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evolutionary conservation, diversity and specificity of LTR-retrotransposons in flowering plants: insights from genome-wide analysis and multi-specific comparison

(2010) Jianchang Du et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Promiscuous DNA: horizontal transfer of transposable elements and why it matters for eukaryotic evolution

(2010) Sarah Schaack et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ginger DNA transposons in eukaryotes and their evolutionary relationships with long terminal repeat retrotransposons

(2010) Weidong Bao et al.   Mobile DNA

The polychromatic Helitron landscape of the maize genome

(2009) C. Du et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DA and Xiao—two giant and composite LTR–retrotransposon-like elements identified in the human genome

(2008) Xinglai Ji et al.   GENOMICS

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

(2008) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Efficient transfer of two large secondary metabolite pathway gene clusters into heterologous hosts by transposition

(2008) Jun Fu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH