Nature Communications (Jul 2021)
DNA transposons mediate duplications via transposition-independent and -dependent mechanisms in metazoans
- 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
Affiliations
- Shengjun Tan
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Huijing Ma
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jinbo Wang
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Man Wang
- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education/Beijing), Center for Cancer Bioinformatics, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute
- Mengxia Wang
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Haodong Yin
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yaqiong Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xinying Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jieyu Shen
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Danyang Wang
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Graham L. Banes
- Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Zhihua Zhang
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jianmin Wu
- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education/Beijing), Center for Cancer Bioinformatics, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute
- Xun Huang
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hua Chen
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Siqin Ge
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chun-Long Chen
- Curie Institute, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR 3244
- Yong E. Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24585-9
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
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.