Bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals found nearly all in freshwater ecosystems worldwide, lack the enzymes that most animals use to silence regions of their genome by attaching chemical tags called ...

Transposable elements are also called selfish DNA parasites because they spread through their hosts, such as humans, animals, plants as well as bacteria and, thus, provide for their own survival.

Jumping genes in bdelloid rotifers are tamped down by DNA methylation performed by an enzyme pilfered from bacteria roughly 60 million years ago, a study finds. Bacterial Enzyme Keeps Rotifers’ ...

Virginia Walbot, OBPC Symposium: Maize 2004 & beyond: Regulation of the MuDR/Mu Transposable Elements of Maize and Their Practical Uses, In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant, Vol. 41, No.

LSTM has launched a new Transposon Registry which will serve as a repository of information on all bacterial transposons for the scientific community. A transposon is defined as a specific DNA ...

Five transposon Tn5 insertion mutants of a bean Rhizobium strain (Rhizobium leguminosarum b.v. phaseoli) were used in an ecological study to evaluate the extent to which transposon Tn5 was stable to ...