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"It will be some time beforewe see Relax, there's nothing wrong with the ""slime, protoplasm, &c. ""generating transpositionpaper. People aren't a new animal. ButI have long readyforthisyet. Istopped publishing regretted that I truckled to public in refereed journals in 1965 because opinion,andusedthePentateuchal therewas nointerest in themaize term of creation,by which I really controlling elements. meant ""appeared"" by some wholly Barbara McClintockto Mel Green, unknownprocess. It is mere rubbish, 1969 thinking at presentof theorigin of life; onemight as well think of the originof matter. Charles Darwin to James D. Hooker, March29, 1863 Sometimes my students and others have asked me: ""what was ?rst in evo- tion - retroviruses or retrotransposons?"" Since HowardTemin proposed that retrovirusesevolvedfromretrotransposons(Temin1980;Teminetal. 1995)the other alternative that retroviruses emerged ?rst and were the predecessors of LTR-retrotransposons has since been a controversial issue (Terzian et al. , this BOOK). While DNA-transposons could not have existed in an ancestral R- world by de?nition, sure enough, some arguments de?nitely point towards apre-DNAworldscenarioinwhichretroelementswerethedirectdescendants of the earliest replicators representing the emergence of life. First, these rep- cators likely catalyzed their own or other's replication cycles via the catalytic properties of RNA molecules. After translation had emerged some replicators possibly encoded an RNA polymerase ?rst. This later evolved into reverse transcriptase(RT),i. e. themostprominentkey-factoratthetransitionintothe DNA world. Simultaneously, replicators could also have encoded membrane protein-genessuchastheenvgeneofrecentDNA-proviruses. Membraneswere likely present muchearlier as prebioticoily ?lms that supported theevolution of a prebiotic-protometabolism (Dyson 1999; Grif?ths 2007)."

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Author:   Dirk-Henner Lankenau ,  Jean-Nicolas Volff
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2009 ed.
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9783642020049

ISBN 10:   3642020046
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   17 July 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Theoretical Approaches to the Dynamics of Transposable Elements in Genomes, Populations, and Species.- Infra- and Transspecific Clues to Understanding the Dynamics of Transposable Elements.- Morphological Characters from the Genome: SINE Insertion Polymorphism and Phylogenies.- Genome Defense Against Transposable Elements and the Origins of Regulatory RNA.- When Drosophila Meets Retrovirology: The gypsy Case.- Transposon–Host Cell Interactions in the Regulation of Sleeping Beauty Transposition.- Interactions of Transposons with the Cellular DNA Repair Machinery.

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