Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that ...

Got junk? Learn how a new study suggests that, when it comes to our genetic code, that may actually be a good thing.

作为一种关键的研究领域，转座因子（transposable element，也称为转座子）是可以改变在基因组中的位置产生或逆转突变，从而改变细胞的遗传特性的 ...

中国科学院武汉植物园邱英雄研究团队对三叶青进行了长期的系统性研究发现： 该物种在更新世早中期经历了由热带向亚热带北缘的迁移（Wang et al., 2015, New Phytologist ），这一生物地理过程可能通过选择性清除在基因组 上留下适应性进化印记；基因组测序研究进一步揭示其基因组中转座子 ...

Not only can transposable elements be useful, but new evidence shows they may have been powerfully linked to primate evolution.

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk", may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression.

Scientists discovered that ancient viral DNA sequences called MER11, once dismissed as genetic junk, actually act as ...

However, transposable elements are also found in prokaryotes, which have much smaller genomes. Moreover, their genomes are significantly streamlined, meaning a much smaller proportion is non-coding.

Researchers from UNSW Sydney have discovered that a particular transposable element, or jumping gene, in the genome has a profound effect on the immune response to virus infection. The findings in ...

After knocking out one of the transposable elements, called Lx9c11, from mice, the researchers infected the animals with Coxsackievirus B4, a virus that largely affects the pancreas and some other ...