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Abstract

Transposable elements (TEs) are nearly ubiquitous in eukaryotes. The increase in genomic data, as well as progress in genome annotation and molecular biology techniques, have revealed the vast number of ways mobile elements have impacted the evolution of eukaryotes. In addition to being the main cause of difference in haploid genome size, TEs have affected the overall organization of genomes by accumulating preferentially in some genomic regions, by causing structural rearrangements or by modifying the recombination rate. Although the vast majority of insertions is neutral or deleterious, TEs have been an important source of evolutionary novelties and have played a determinant role in the evolution of fundamental biological processes. TEs have been recruited in the regulation of host genes and are implicated in the evolution of regulatory networks. They have also served as a source of protein-coding sequences or even entire genes. The impact of TEs on eukaryotic evolution is only now being fully appreciated and the role they may play in a number of biological processes, such as speciation and adaptation, remains to be deciphered.

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Title
The Structural, Functional and Evolutionary Impact of Transposable Elements in Eukaryotes
Author
Almojil, Dareen 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bourgeois, Yann 2 ; Falis, Marcin 1 ; Hariyani, Imtiyaz 1 ; Wilcox, Justin 3 ; Boissinot, Stéphane 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 129188, United Arab Emirates; [email protected] (D.A.); [email protected] (M.F.); [email protected] (I.H.); [email protected] (J.W.) 
 School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK; [email protected] 
 New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 129188, United Arab Emirates; [email protected] (D.A.); [email protected] (M.F.); [email protected] (I.H.); [email protected] (J.W.); Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 129188, United Arab Emirates 
First page
918
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734425
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2544820914
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.