Article
Transposable elements and microevolutionary changes in natural populations.
Molecular ecology resources - 1 Sept 2013
Bonchev Georgi, Parisod Christian
Abstract excerpt
Transposable elements (TEs) usually represent the most abundant and dynamic fraction of genomes in almost all living organisms. The overall capacity of such 'junk DNA' to induce mutations and foster the reorganization of functional genomes suggests that TE may be of central evolutionary significance. However, to what extent TE dynamics drive and is driven by the evolutionary trajectory of host taxa remains poorly...
Topics
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Rearrangement
- Molecular Biology
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Mutation
- Sequence Deletion