Transposable elements (TEs) or “jumping genes” historically have been disparaged as a
class of “junk DNA” in mammalian genomes (1, 2). The advent of whole genome DNA …

Short retroposons (SINEs) are repetitive elements amplified in the genome via an RNA
intermediate, using the enzymatic machinery of autonomous retroposons (LINEs). SINEs are …

The sequence of the mouse genome is a key informational tool for understanding the
contents of the human genome and a key experimental tool for biomedical research. Here …

Short interspersed elements (SINEs) are one of the two most prolific mobile genomic
elements in most of the higher eukaryotes. Although their biology is still not thoroughly …

Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic sequences that can jump around the
genome from one location to another, behaving as genomic parasites. TEs have been …

Abstract SINEBase (http://sines. eimb. ru) integrates the revisited body of knowledge about
short interspersed elements (SINEs). A set of formal definitions concerning SINEs was …

Abstract Mammalian LINE-1 (L1) elements belong to the superfamily of autonomously
replicating retrotransposable elements that lack the long terminal repeated (LTR) sequences …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) form an abundant class of non‐coding RNA genes that have an
important function in post‐transcriptional gene regulation and in particular modulate the …

Mammalian MutL homologues function in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) after replication
errors and in meiotic recombination. Both functions are initiated by a heterodimer of MutS …

The Y genes encode small noncoding RNAs whose functions remain elusive, whose
numbers vary between species, and whose major property is to be bound by the Ro60 …