Jumpstarting evolution: How transposition can facilitate adaptation to rapid environmental changes

Transposable elements employ distinct integration strategies with respect to transcriptional landscapes in eukaryotic genomes

(2020) Xinyan Zhang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Major Impacts of Widespread Structural Variation on Gene Expression and Crop Improvement in Tomato

(2020) Michael Alonge et al.   CELL

Epigenetic regulation of spurious transcription initiation in Arabidopsis

(2020) Ngoc Tu Le et al.   Nature Communications

The impact of transposable elements on tomato diversity

(2020) Marisol Domínguez et al.   Nature Communications

ONSEN shows different transposition activities in RdDM pathway mutants

(2020) Yui Hayashi et al.   GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS

Genomic diversity generated by a transposable element burst in a rice recombinant inbred population

(2020) Jinfeng Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polycomb mutant partially suppresses DNA hypomethylation–associated phenotypes in Arabidopsis

(2020) Martin Rougée et al.   Life Science Alliance

Transposable elements drive rapid phenotypic variation in Capsella rubella

(2019) Xiao-Min Niu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transposition favors the generation of large effect mutations that may facilitate rapid adaption

(2019) Leandro Quadrana et al.   Nature Communications

Host–transposon interactions: conflict, cooperation, and cooption

(2019) Rachel L Cosby et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The impact of transposable elements on the structure, evolution and function of the rice genome

(2019) Roland Akakpo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Relaxed purifying selection in autopolyploids drives transposable element over-accumulation which provides variants for local adaptation

(2019) Pierre Baduel et al.   Nature Communications

Common alleles of CMT2 and NRPE1 are major determinants of CHH methylation variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2019) Eriko Sasaki et al.   PLoS Genetics

Transposable elements: all mobile, all different, some stress responsive, some adaptive?

(2018) Sophie Lanciano et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Transposable Elements Contribute to the Adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2018) Zi-Wen Li et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Fine-Grained Analysis of Spontaneous Mutation Spectrum and Frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2018) Mao-Lun Weng et al.   GENETICS

Retrotranspositional landscape of Asian rice revealed by 3000 genomes

(2018) Marie-Christine Carpentier et al.   Nature Communications

Integration site selection by retroviruses and transposable elements in eukaryotes

(2017) Tania Sultana et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Dual Role of the Histone Variant H2A.Z in Transcriptional Regulation of Stress-Response Genes

(2017) Weronika Sura et al.   PLANT CELL

African genomes illuminate the early history and transition to selfing inArabidopsis thaliana

(2017) Arun Durvasula et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DDM1 and Lsh remodelers allow methylation of DNA wrapped in nucleosomes

(2017) David B Lyons et al.   eLife

1,135 Genomes Reveal the Global Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2016) Carlos Alonso-Blanco et al.   CELL

Cistrome and Epicistrome Features Shape the Regulatory DNA Landscape

(2016) Ronan C. O’Malley et al.   CELL

Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate

(2016) Michael Lynch et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Arabidopsis thaliana mobilome and its impact at the species level

(2016) Leandro Quadrana et al.   eLife

LTR retrotransposons, handy hitchhikers of plant regulation and stress response

(2015) Marie-Angèle Grandbastien   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Epigenetic and developmental regulation in plant polyploids

(2015) Qingxin Song et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Evolutionary dynamics of retrotransposons following autopolyploidy in the Buckler Mustard species complex

(2015) Amélie Bardil et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Kicking against the PRCs – A Domesticated Transposase Antagonises Silencing Mediated by Polycomb Group Proteins and Is an Accessory Component of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2

(2015) Shih Chieh Liang et al.   PLoS Genetics

The bright side of transposons in crop evolution

(2014) C. Vitte et al.   Briefings in Functional Genomics

The Histone Variant H2A.W Defines Heterochromatin and Promotes Chromatin Condensation in Arabidopsis

(2014) Ramesh Yelagandula et al.   CELL

Polyploidy in the Arabidopsis genus

(2014) Kirsten Bomblies et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

How a Retrotransposon Exploits the Plant's Heat Stress Response for Its Activation

(2014) Vladimir V. Cavrak et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification

(2013) Rachel S. Meyer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Mu-seq: Sequence-Based Mapping and Identification of Transposon Induced Mutations

(2013) Donald R. McCarty et al.   PLoS One

Mechanism for full-length RNA processing of Arabidopsis genes containing intragenic heterochromatin

(2013) Hidetoshi Saze et al.   Nature Communications

Centromere-targeted de novo integrations of an LTR retrotransposon of Arabidopsis lyrata

(2012) S. Tsukahara et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

How important are transposons for plant evolution?

(2012) Damon Lisch   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Transposable Elements, Epigenetics, and Genome Evolution

(2012) N. V. Fedoroff   SCIENCE

Deposition of Histone Variant H2A.Z within Gene Bodies Regulates Responsive Genes

(2012) Devin Coleman-Derr et al.   PLoS Genetics

An siRNA pathway prevents transgenerational retrotransposition in plants subjected to stress

(2011) Hidetaka Ito et al.   NATURE

Identification of a functional transposon insertion in the maize domestication gene tb1

(2011) Anthony Studer et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals

(2010) Julie A. Law et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Bursts of retrotransposition reproduced in Arabidopsis

(2009) Sayuri Tsukahara et al.   NATURE

Unexpected consequences of a sudden and massive transposon amplification on rice gene expression

(2009) Ken Naito et al.   NATURE

Selective epigenetic control of retrotransposition in Arabidopsis

(2009) Marie Mirouze et al.   NATURE