Proud to share our latest review on how transposable elements in plants have their preferred niches in the genome, be it the centromere, or the sex chromosome, for example:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/plb.70057
#plant #genome #evolution #ltr #transposon
One of the stories followed:
Some TE distributions among chromosomes can best be explained by TEs jumping in the male or female gametophyte.
Seminar by Gaotian ZHANG at IDEEV
↪️ Friday March 14, 2025 - 12:00
"Transposon-mediated genic rearrangements underlie variation in small RNA pathways"
#SemIDEEV #gene #rna #caenorhabditiselegans #transposon #dna #gaotianzhang
#ibens @ENS
1-Jan-2025
Revealing a key mechanism of rapid centromere #evolution
Researchers clarify a key mechanism of genetic element insertions in the #centromere, the “waist” of a #chromosome
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1069128 #science #DNA #MolecularBiology #transposon
Happy to spread the word about our new paper in BioData Mining, mostly based on the work of my former student Jakub Horváth. We trained 3 different ML models to detect/classify long terminal repeats (LTR) from plant #retrotransposons, then looked at features that influenced their predictive ability the most.
TATA box related k-mers, 4-6 bp at sequence borders, and transcription factor binding sites were among signals the models leaned upon.
#Transposon #bioinformatics
Looking to move to dry land?
Horizontal #transposon transfer may be just the solution you're looking for--if you're a #plant, anyway!
Learn more about the #evolutionary roles of HTT-derived TEs in this new #JIPB #BriefComms!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13809
@wileyplantsci
#PlantSci #botany
#ChinaMu is the largest sequence-indexed Mutator (Mu) #transposon insertional library in #maize. Here, Liang et al. report on its expansion and improvement by MuT-seq and #chromosome-level assembly of the Mu-starter #genome. https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13637
@wileyplantsci
#PlantSci #botany
Research unravels the enigma of #curly_birch and suggests marker to recognize it at the sprout stage.
#genomics #mutation #transposon
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-unravels-enigma-curly-birch-marker.html
Nice preprint led by @benoitevol on counter intuitive relation between TE distribution and Ne measured by dN/dS https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.26.582137v1 #PopGen #transposon
Defense against the enemy within: Scientists discover a new #enzyme that helps cells fight genomic parasites // #biology #MolecularBiology #transposon #immunity @imbmainz @uni_mainz_eng @MaxPerutzLabs
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/10/04/defense-against-the-enemy-within
Defense against the enemy within: Scientists discover a new #enzyme that helps cells fight genomic parasites // #biology #MolecularBiology #transposon #immunity @imbmainz @uni_mainz_eng @MaxPerutzLabs
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/10/04/defense-against-the-enemy-within
Gene überwinden Artschranke zwischen Mehrzellern. Beleg für horizontalen Gentransfer zwischen Tieren durch eine spezielle Art der Transposons. #Gene #Artschranke #Transposon #Genom #Genetik
https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/gene-ueberwinden-artschranke-zwischen-mehrzellern/
The #transposon Monster Manual expands again: Replitrons! Nice work Rory Craig! https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301424120
Exploring the #centromere and its role in the formation of new #species.
#evolution #ATHILA #gene #transposon
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-exploring-centromere-role-formation-species.html
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Transposon&Cancer Epigenetics in London @QMBCI
Come join us in #London as a #postdoc to work on #cancer #epigenetics #transposon!
#ScienceJobs #job
London #UnitedKingdomUK #PostdoctoralF...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/barts-cancer-institute-27778-postdoctoral-research-assistant-in-transposoncancer-epigenetics-in-london/?feed_id=44598
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Cancer&Transposon Epigenetics in London
We are looking for a second #postdoc to join our growing lab to work on #epigenetic #cancer and #transposon @QMBCI in #London!
#ScienceJobs #job
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https://jobrxiv.org/job/qmul-27778-postdoctoral-research-assistant-in-cancertransposon-epigenetics-in-london/?feed_id=42888
A modular #transposon-based platform for dynamically rewiring gene regulatory networks in bacteria ➡️ https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/msb.202211398
from J Collins, Broad Institute, MIT
#functionalgenomics #SynBio #SyntheticBiology #SystemsBiology #GeneRegulatoryNetwork
🌿👾 #plant #transposon friends: I'm looking for a good dataset to benchmark a program detecting insertion polymorphisms. Ideally the samples would have different type of raw sequencing (long+short reads), and a trusted list of known insertion polymorphisms. Open to collab! 🤝
Must be slipping in my dotage, a new #transposon database came out not too long ago focussed on Helitron elements http://heldb.biocloud.net/home https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12929
🇧🇷 #Transposon people! Reach out to @rita_rebollo :) #TEhub
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RT @rita_rebollo
Viva Brasil! 5 week stay, lots of lab visits, and a nice collab with Claudia Carareto (of course)! Thanks CAPES! #transposon people from #Brazil, let's hook up! @hub_te thinking of you! #WorkTripWithKids #WishmeLuck #BrazilianGramaToTheRescue
https://twitter.com/rita_rebollo/status/1621602934583705602
