Causes and Consequences of Varying Transposable Element Activity: An Evolutionary Perspective

AJ Betancourt, KHC Wei, Y Huang… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic parasites found in nearly all eukaryotes,
including humans. This evolutionary success of TEs is due to their replicative activity …

Genetic constraints in genes exhibiting splicing plasticity in facultative diapause

RA Steward, P Pruisscher, KT Roberts, CW Wheat - Heredity, 2024 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity is produced and maintained by processes regulating the transcriptome.
While differential gene expression is among the most important of these processes …

Reference genome for the Mojave poppy bee (Perdita meconis), a specialist pollinator of conservation concern

RM Schweizer, CG Meidt, LR Benavides… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Mojave poppy bee, Perdita meconis Griswold (Hymenoptera: Anthophila:
Andrenidae), is a species of conservation concern that is restricted to the eastern Mojave …

Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation–a tardigrade perspective

V Peona, J Martelossi, D Almojil, J Bocharkina… - Mobile DNA, 2024 - Springer
Background The advancement of sequencing technologies results in the rapid release of
hundreds of new genome assemblies a year providing unprecedented resources for the …

Comparative Evolutionary Genomics in Insects

B Feldmeyer, E Bornberg-Bauer, E Dohmen… - … Genomics: Methods and …, 2024 - Springer
Genome sequencing quality, in terms of both read length and accuracy, is constantly
improving. By combining long-read sequencing technologies with various scaffolding …

[PDF][PDF] Identification of antennal alternative splicing by combining genome and full-length transcriptome analysis in Bactrocera dorsalis

Q Wang, J Zhang, C Liu, C Ru, Q Qian… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Alternative splicing (AS) is an essential post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism and
enables the generation of structurally variable transcripts from a single gene (Verta and …

Ionizing radiation mediated changes in the larval gut bacterial community composition of pest, Spodoptera litura (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) derived from irradiated …

CK Singh, KK Sodhi, R Seth, RK Seth - International Journal of Tropical …, 2024 - Springer
Operation of radio-genetic 'Inherited sterility technique'(IS), proposed for suppression of a
serious tropical pest, Spodoptera litura (Fabr.) requires reproductively competitive moths as …

[HTML][HTML] Differential Conservation and Loss of CR1 Retrotransposons in Squamates Reveals Lineage-Specific Genome Dynamics across Reptiles

SM Gable, N Bushroe, J Mendez, A Wilson, B Pinto… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Transposable elements (TEs) are repetitive DNA sequences which create mutations and
generate genetic diversity across the tree of life. In amniotic vertebrates, TEs have been …

Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals

A Marino, G Debaecker, AS Fiston-Lavier, A Haudry… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Animal genomes exhibit a remarkable variation in size, but the evolutionary forces
responsible for such variation are still debated. As the effective population size (Ne) reflects …

The genomic landscape of adaptation to a new host plant

RA Steward, KJ Nilsson, J Ortega Giménez, ZJ Nolen… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Adaptation to novel ecological niches is known to be rapid. However, how the loci
underlying ecological divergence are coupled to traits reproductively isolating populations …