DNA transposons mediate duplications via transposition-independent and -dependent mechanisms in metazoans

DNA transposons mediate duplications via transposition-independent and -dependent mechanisms in metazoans

Transposons are accepted as evolutionary catalysts but how they do so remains less clear. Analyzing 100 animal genomes finds that terminal inverted repeat-type transposable elements catalyze new gene structures and new genes in animals via both transposition-independent and -dependent mechanisms.

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Main Authors: Shengjun Tan, Huijing Ma, Jinbo Wang, Man Wang, Mengxia Wang, Haodong Yin, Yaqiong Zhang, Xinying Zhang, Jieyu Shen, Danyang Wang, Graham L. Banes, Zhihua Zhang, Jianmin Wu, Xun Huang, Hua Chen, Siqin Ge, Chun-Long Chen, Yong E. Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24585-9

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24585-9

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