Mobile DNA elements, such as Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, transposons, integrative elements (e.g. integrative islands), ...

Researchers say findings suggest it may be possible to stop cancer growth using approaches such as restraining TE activity in ...

For decades, scientists dismissed transposable elements, also known as transposons or “jumping genes”, as useless “junk DNA”. But are they really? The early speculations of both McClintock ...

Where the self-chains are not available, you can manually search for additional occurrences of a few elements by obtaining the raw sequence via the “DNA” link at the top of the Genome Browser ...

“They’re always collecting these mobile DNA pieces, and they’re making new functions all the time—everything in antibiotic resistance is really about mobile genetic elements and almost ...