DNA transposons are DNA sequences, sometimes referred to "jumping genes", that can move and integrate to different locations within the genome. They are...

A transposable element (TE, transposon, or jumping gene) is a nucleic acid sequence in DNA that can change its position within a genome, sometimes creating...

The Sleeping Beauty transposon system is a synthetic DNA transposon designed to introduce precisely defined DNA sequences into the chromosomes of vertebrate...

monitoring the fitness of transposon insertion mutants via DNA sequencing approaches. Transposons are highly regulated, discrete DNA segments that can relocate...

pseudogenes, intergenic DNA, and fragments of transposons and viruses. Regions that are completely nonfunctional are called junk DNA. In bacteria, the coding...

Transposon mutagenesis, or transposition mutagenesis, is a biological process that allows genes to be transferred to a host organism's chromosome, interrupting...

inactive transposons from the salmonid subfamily of elements, was “awoken” to form the transposon named Sleeping Beauty. SB, like other DNA transposons, mobilizes...

Tc1/mariner is a class and superfamily of interspersed repeats DNA (Class II) transposons. The elements of this class are found in all animals, including...

occupies about 11% of the human genome with around 1,500,000 copies. DNA transposons encode a transposase enzyme between inverted terminal repeats. When...

pseudogenes and fragments of transposons and viruses—but it is possible that some organisms have substantial amounts of junk DNA. All protein-coding regions...