Joshua P. Ramsay

TL;DR: There is a high level of discordance of imprinting status between the mouse and human, even when cases in which the orthologue is absent from one species are excluded, and a high proportion of imprinted genes are noncoding RNAs or genes derived by retrotransposition.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates that statin therapy drives a profound remodelling of the gut microbiota, hepatic gene deregulation and metabolic alterations in mice through a PXR-dependent mechanism.

TL;DR: It is shown that the ICEMlSymR7AintS gene, which encodes an integrase of the phage P4 family, is required for integration and excision of the island and the presence of a plasmid with cloned island traR traI2 genes resulted in excision in all cells regardless of culture density, indicating that excision may be similarly regulated.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a greater research focus on the molecular biology of conjugation is essential if the accretion and dissemination of antimicrobial-resistance genes in the human and animal pathogen Staphylococcus aureus is to be recognized from increasingly in silico analyses.

TL;DR: The findings are summarized, the diverse mobilization strategies employed by mobile genetic elements are reviewed, implications for future gene-transfer research are discussed and more elements may be mobilizable than previously recognized.