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COST ENDURED. "Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic elements that can self-replicate and insert elsewhere in the genome. This movement often comes with a fitness cost and yet TEs are tremendously common. They contribute more than 80% to the largest plant genomes, but are much less abundant in the smallest plant genomes." https://lnkd.in/dhVd8s4 View in LinkedIn

STABLE FOSSILS. "Since newly inserted TEs rarely undergo deletion they are highly stable polymorphisms." (TE = transposable elements). https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13100-015-0052-6 View in LinkedIn

HEREDITABLE GENETIC FOSSILS. "If members of these active TE families transpose in the germline, they can create novel insertions that are capable of being inherited, thereby generating human-specific polymorphisms." (TE = transposable elements). https://lnkd.in/dUmVr_n View in LinkedIn

FUNCTIONAL GENETIC FOSSILS. "Nevertheless, there remain a few families of actively transposing human TEs; the active families of human TEs include Alu, L1 and SVA elements. All three of these active families of human TEs are retrotransposons that transpose via reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate." (TE = transposable elements). https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13100-015-0052-6 View in LinkedIn

FOSSIL GRAVEYARD. "Much of the human genome sequence, anywhere from ~50 to 70 % depending on estimates, is derived from transposable elements (TE). The vast majority of TE-derived sequences in the genome are remnants of ancient insertion events, which are no longer capable of transposition." https://lnkd.in/dUmVr_n View in LinkedIn

GENE RECRUITMENT. "Comparative genomic analysis reveals numerous cases of recruitment of genes with essential functions in cellular life forms, including those that enable evolutionary transitions." https://lnkd.in/d_h9CX2 View in LinkedIn

“THE SHEER ABUNDANCE of TEs in the genome, as well as the variety of mutation effects induced by their mobility, suggest that they might, in some cases, be exapted or domesticated, to serve the evolutionary interests of the host.” (TE = transposable elements). https://lnkd.in/dwuaM5f View in LinkedIn

AGAINST THE ODDS. "It has been shown that TEs can spread within and among genomes even in the face of a selective cost to the host." (TE = transposable elements). https://lnkd.in/dwuaM5f View in LinkedIn

“THE SELFISH DNA concept of TEs focuses on the parasitic nature of these elements and emphasizes the deleterious effects of transposition as well as the negligible evolutionary benefit that TEs provide to their hosts.” (TE = transposable elements). https://lnkd.in/dwuaM5f View in LinkedIn

"THE STAGGERING evolutionary success of TEs in eukaryotes is often attributed to their ability to out replicate the host genomes in which they reside, as opposed to any selective advantage that they might provide to their hosts." (TE = transposable elements). https://lnkd.in/dwuaM5f View in LinkedIn