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Mobile elements: drivers of genome evolution.

Haig H. Kazazian
- 12 Mar 2004 - 
- Vol. 303, Iss: 5664, pp 1626-1632
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Mobile elements within genomes have driven genome evolution in diverse ways and are becoming useful tools for learning more about genome evolution and gene function.
Abstract
Mobile elements within genomes have driven genome evolution in diverse ways. Particularly in plants and mammals, retrotransposons have accumulated to constitute a large fraction of the genome and have shaped both genes and the entire genome. Although the host can often control their numbers, massive expansions of retrotransposons have been tolerated during evolution. Now mobile elements are becoming useful tools for learning more about genome evolution and gene function.

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Massive Expansion of Bitter Taste Receptors in Blind Cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a thorough phylogenetic analysis to delineate the bitter taste receptor repertoires of 15 different fish species and found that blind cavefish possess more than 20 intact bitter taste receptors and several pseudogenes.
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ConTEdb: a comprehensive database of transposable elements in conifers.

TL;DR: ConTEdb provides a platform to study TE biology and functional genomics in conifers and enables users to browse, retrieve and download the TE sequences from the database.
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Regulation of Mariner Transposition: The Peculiar Case of Mos1

TL;DR: The main finding is that the paired-end complex is formed in a cooperative way, regardless of the transposase concentration, and new insights are provided on intrinsic properties supporting the self-regulation of the Mos1 element.
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Key issues in achieving an integrative perspective on stress.

TL;DR: An integrative perspective on molecular mechanisms of stress resistance requires understanding of these mechanisms not just in vitro or in the model organism in the research laboratory — but in the healthy or diseased human in society, in the cultivated plant or animal in agricultural production, and in populations and species in natural communities and ecosystems.
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[New mechanism of retrogene formation in mammalian genomes: in vivo recombination during RNA reverse transcription].

TL;DR: The presence in the mammalian genome of not only “double” but also “triple” chimeric retrogenes indicates that not only a single but also a double template switch may occur during L1-catalyzed reverse transcription.
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