[HTML][HTML] Origins and evolution of viruses of eukaryotes: The ultimate modularity

EV Koonin, VV Dolja, M Krupovic - Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Viruses and other selfish genetic elements are dominant entities in the biosphere, with
respect to both physical abundance and genetic diversity. Various selfish elements …

Mobile bacterial group II introns at the crux of eukaryotic evolution

AM Lambowitz, M Belfort - Mobile DNA III, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Group II introns are remarkable mobile retroelements that use the combined activities of an
autocatalytic RNA and an intron‐encoded reverse transcriptase (RT) to propagate efficiently …

Pan-3D genome analysis reveals structural and functional differentiation of soybean genomes

L Ni, Y Liu, X Ma, T Liu, X Yang, Z Wang, Q Liang, S Liu… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background High-order chromatin structure plays important roles in gene regulation.
However, the diversity of the three-dimensional (3D) genome across plant accessions are …

Using bioinformatic and phylogenetic approaches to classify transposable elements and understand their complex evolutionary histories

IR Arkhipova - Mobile DNA, 2017 - Springer
In recent years, much attention has been paid to comparative genomic studies of
transposable elements (TEs) and the ensuing problems of their identification, classification …

Evolving together: Cassandra retrotransposons gradually mirror promoter mutations of the 5S rRNA genes

S Maiwald, L Mann, S Garcia… - Molecular Biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The 5S rRNA genes are among the most conserved nucleotide sequences across all
species. Similar to the 5S preservation we observe the occurrence of 5S-related …

LINEs between species: evolutionary dynamics of LINE-1 retrotransposons across the eukaryotic tree of life

AM Ivancevic, RD Kortschak, T Bertozzi… - Genome Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposons are dynamic elements. They have the potential to cause great
genomic change because of their ability to 'jump'around the genome and amplify …

Phase separation of the LINE-1 ORF1 protein is mediated by the N-terminus and coiled-coil domain

JC Newton, MT Naik, GY Li, EL Murphy, NL Fawzi… - Biophysical journal, 2021 - cell.com
Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (L1) is a retrotransposable element that autonomously
replicates in the human genome, resulting in DNA damage and genomic instability …

Recurrent acquisition of cytosine methyltransferases into eukaryotic retrotransposons

A de Mendoza, A Bonnet, DB Vargas-Landin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Transposable elements are in a constant arms race with the silencing mechanisms of their
host genomes. One silencing mechanism commonly used by many eukaryotes is dependent …

Genome-wide identification of Reverse Transcriptase domains of recently inserted endogenous plant pararetrovirus (Caulimoviridae)

C De Tomás, CM Vicient - Frontiers in plant science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are viral sequences that have been integrated into the
nuclear chromosomes. Endogenous pararetrovirus (EPRV) are a class of EVEs derived from …

Broken, silent, and in hiding: tamed endogenous pararetroviruses escape elimination from the genome of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)

N Schmidt, KM Seibt, B Weber… - Annals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Endogenous pararetroviruses (EPRVs) are widespread
components of plant genomes that originated from episomal DNA viruses of the …