Background Kruppel Associated Box-containing Zinc Finger Proteins (KRAB-ZFPs), representing the largest superfamily of transcription factors in mammal......
Background: Type 1 long interspersed elements, or LINE-1, are the only retroelements that replicate autonomously in human cells. The retrotranspositio......
Background Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play important roles in building innate immune and inducing adaptive immune responses. Associations of the TLR g......
Background Molecular markers based on retrotransposon insertion polymorphisms (RIPs) have been developed and are widely used in plants and animals. Sh......
The IS6 family of bacterial and archaeal insertion sequences, first identified in the early 1980s, has proved to be instrumental in the rearrangement ......
Background Tc1/marinerandZator, as two superfamilies ofIS630-Tc1-mariner(ITm) group, have been well-defined. However, the molecular evolution and dome......
Background A family of Tc1/mariner transposons with a characteristic DD38E triad of catalytic amino acid residues, named Intruder (IT), was previously......
Background SINEs are a type of nonautonomous retrotransposon that can transpose from one site to be integrated elsewhere in an organism genome. SINE i......
BackgroundRepetitive sequences, including transposable elements (TEs) and satellite DNAs, occupy a considerable portion of plant genomes. Analysis of ......
Background The Tc1/mariner superfamily might represent the most diverse and widely distributed group of DNA transposons. Several families have been id......
BackgroundRetrotransposons are the major determinants of genome sizes and they have shaped both genes and genomes in mammalian organisms, but their ov......
Background: Helitrons play an important role in shaping eukaryotic genomes due to their ability to transfer horizontally between distantly related spe......
BackgroundIncA/C plasmids play important roles in the development and dissemination of multidrug resistance in bacteria. These plasmids carry three me......
BackgroundMiniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are common in eukaryotic genomes, and are important for genomic evolution.ResultsIn ......
