Casposons: a new superfamily of self-synthesizing DNA transposons at the origin of prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas immunity

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

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Crystal structure of Cas1 from Archaeoglobus fulgidus and characterization of its nucleolytic activity

(2013) Tae-Yang Kim et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Unification of the Globally Distributed Spindle-Shaped Viruses of the Archaea

(2013) M. Krupovic et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Breaking and joining single-stranded DNA: the HUH endonuclease superfamily

(2013) Michael Chandler et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative genomics of defense systems in archaea and bacteria

(2013) Kira S. Makarova et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Superfamily of DNA Transposons Targeting Multicopy Small RNA Genes

(2013) Kenji K. Kojima et al.   PLoS One

CRISPR-spacer integration reporter plasmids reveal distinct genuine acquisition specificities among CRISPR-Cas I-E variants ofEscherichia coli

(2013) César Díez-Villaseñor et al.   RNA Biology

Networks of evolutionary interactions underlying the polyphyletic origin of ssDNA viruses

(2013) Mart Krupovic   Current Opinion in Virology

A virocentric perspective on the evolution of life

(2013) Eugene V Koonin et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

The major role of viruses in cellular evolution: facts and hypotheses

(2013) Patrick Forterre et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

CRISPR-Cas systems and RNA-guided interference

(2013) Rodolphe Barrangou   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-RNA

A proposed mechanism for IS607-family serine transposases

(2013) Martin R Boocock et al.   Mobile DNA

The CRISPRs, They Are A-Changin': How Prokaryotes Generate Adaptive Immunity

(2012) Edze R. Westra et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Unipro UGENE: a unified bioinformatics toolkit

(2012) Konstantin Okonechnikov et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Draft Genome Sequence of an Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon, "Candidatus Nitrosopumilus sediminis" AR2, from Svalbard in the Arctic Circle

(2012) S.-J. Park et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Complete Genome Sequence of Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis, the Largest Genome of a Human-Associated Archaea Species

(2012) A. Gorlas et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Virion Architecture Unifies Globally Distributed Pleolipoviruses Infecting Halophilic Archaea

(2012) M. K. Pietila et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Proteins and DNA elements essential for the CRISPR adaptation process in Escherichia coli

(2012) Ido Yosef et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Unification of Cas protein families and a simple scenario for the origin and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

(2011) Kira S Makarova et al.   Biology Direct

The struggle for life of the genome's selfish architects

(2011) Aurélie Hua-Van et al.   Biology Direct

Evolution and classification of the CRISPR–Cas systems

(2011) Kira S. Makarova et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Integrons

(2010) Guillaume Cambray et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Partial Chromosome Sequence of Spiroplasma citri Reveals Extensive Viral Invasion and Important Gene Decay

(2010) P. Carle et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Correlated evolution of LTR retrotransposons and genome size in the genus eleocharis

(2010) František Zedek et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

A dual function of the CRISPR-Cas system in bacterial antivirus immunity and DNA repair

(2010) Mohan Babu et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms

(2010) Simon J. Labrie et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Epigenetic Regulation of Mammalian Genomes by Transposable Elements

(2009) Ahsan Huda et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Evolution of DNA polymerases: an inactivated polymerase-exonuclease module in Pol ε and a chimeric origin of eukaryotic polymerases from two classes of archaeal ancestors

(2009) Tahir H Tahirov et al.   Biology Direct

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Structural Basis for DNase Activity of a Conserved Protein Implicated in CRISPR-Mediated Genome Defense

(2009) Blake Wiedenheft et al.   STRUCTURE

A modular master on the move: the Tn916 family of mobile genetic elements

(2009) Adam P. Roberts et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Deep Archaeal Roots of Eukaryotes

(2008) N. Yutin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A universal classification of eukaryotic transposable elements implemented in Repbase

(2008) Vladimir V. Kapitonov et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

PROMALS3D: a tool for multiple protein sequence and structure alignments

(2008) Jimin Pei et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Tn7 elements: Engendering diversity from chromosomes to episomes

(2008) Adam R. Parks et al.   PLASMID