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The existence of transposable elements was implied by Barbara McClintock in the 1940s, based on genetic experiments, and verified in the 1970s by molecular biology. By the late 1990s, hundreds of elements have been detected in all living organisms and are believed to represent more than 15% of every organism's genome. Major questions remain to be answered concerning how transposable elements have evolved within the context of interacting host genomes. These questions are of great interest because transposable elements may have had a significant impact on the evolution of host genome structure and the ability of populations and species to successfully adapt to their environments. In this book, complementary aspects of the evolution impact of transposable elements are discussed in papers presented by participants of the ESF workshop entitled Evolution and Role of Transposable Elements which was held at CNRS in Gif-sur-Yvette, France in September 1996.

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Author:   Pierre Capy
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Reprinted from GENETICA, 1998
Volume:   6
Weight:   1.204kg
ISBN:  

9780792346906

ISBN 10:   0792346904
Pages:   309
Publication Date:   31 January 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Structure of transposable element.- LTR retrotransposons and the evolution of eukaryotic enhancers.- What makes Grande1 retrotransposon different?.- About the origin of retroviruses and the co-evolution of the gypsy retrovirus with the Drosophila flamenco host gene.- Structural analysis of Drosophila subobscura gypsy elements (gypsyDs).- Evolution of R1 and R2 in the rDNA units of the genus Drosophila.- Do the integrases of LTR-retrotransposons and class II element transposases have a common ancestor?.- II. Transposable elements and heterochromatin.- Evolutionary links between telomeres and transposable elements.- Constitutive heterochromatin and transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster.- P element regulation and X-chromosome subtelomeric heterochromatin in Drosophila melanogaster.- III. Transposable elements and host phylogenies.- Quasispecies in retrotransposons: a role for sequence variability in Tntl evolution.- Genetic and molecular investigations on the endogenous mobile elements of non-drosophilid fruitflies.- Genomic distribution of the retrovirus-like element ZAM in Drosophila.- CM-gag, a transposable-like element reiterated in the genome of Culex pipiens mosquitoes contains only a gag gene.- IV. Dynamics and regulation of transposable elements.- Evidence for a host role in regulating the activity of transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster: the case of the persistent instability of Baril elements in Charolles stock.- Plant S1 SINEs as model to study retroposition.- Maintenance of transposable element copy number in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans.- Accumulation of transposable elements in laboratory ines of Drosophila melanogaster.- Regulation of the transposable element mariner.- The evolution of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons in eukaryote genomes.- The chromosomal distributions of Ty1-copia group retrotransposable elements in higher plants and their implications for genome evolution.- The Ty1-copia group of retrotransposons in plants: genomic organisation, evolution, and use as molecular markers.- BARE-1 insertion site preferences and evolutionary conservation of RNA and cDNA processing sites.- BARE-1D, a representative of a family of BARE-like elements of the barley genome.- The expression of the tobacco Tnt1 retrotransposon is linked to plant defense responses.- Fungal transposable elements and genome evolution.- Molecular domestication of mobile elements.- Genomic signatures: tracing the origin of retroelements at the nucleotide level C - Models of transposable elements dynamics.- Population genetics models of transposable elements.- A simulation of the P element horizontal transfer in Drosophila.

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