A Field Guide to Eukaryotic Transposable Elements

The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome.

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A unified classification system for eukaryotic transposable elements

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Repeated Sequences in DNA

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Gene Regulation for Higher Cells: A Theory

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The origins of genome complexity

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Alu repeats and human genomic diversity

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Benchmarking transposable element annotation methods for creation of a streamlined, comprehensive pipeline

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Regulatory activities of transposable elements: from conflicts to benefits

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The Norway spruce genome sequence and conifer genome evolution

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Roles of transposable elements in the regulation of mammalian transcription

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Transposable elements shape the evolution of mammalian development

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Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

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Earl Grey: A Fully Automated User-Friendly Transposable Element Annotation and Analysis Pipeline

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A systematic benchmark of Nanopore long-read RNA sequencing for transcript-level analysis in human cell lines

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A beginner’s guide to manual curation of transposable elements

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Taming transposable elements in vertebrates: from epigenetic silencing to domestication

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Transposable elements as essential elements in the control of gene expression

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Genomic impact of stress-induced transposable element mobility in Arabidopsis

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A mouse-specific retrotransposon drives a conserved Cdk2ap1 isoform essential for development

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Transposable elements

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Satellite DNAs—From Localized to Highly Dispersed Genome Components

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A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution

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Retrotransposons hijack alt-EJ for DNA replication and eccDNA biogenesis

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Molecular mechanisms of adaptive evolution in wild animals and plants

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Epigenetically controlled tumor antigens derived from splice junctions between exons and transposable elements

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The Immunological Conundrum of Endogenous Retroelements

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Transposable elements as tissue-specific enhancers in cancers of endodermal lineage

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Hijacking of transcriptional condensates by endogenous retroviruses

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The Structural, Functional and Evolutionary Impact of Transposable Elements in Eukaryotes

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An atlas of transcription initiation reveals regulatory principles of gene and transposable element expression in early mammalian development

Oomen, M. E., Rodriguez‐Terrones, D., Kurome, M., Zakhartchenko, V., Mottes, L., Simmet, K., Noll, C., Nakatani, T., Mourra-Díaz, C. M., Aksoy, I., et al. (2025) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.013 · Cited by 77

Long-read RNA sequencing: A transformative technology for exploring transcriptome complexity in human diseases

Ament, I. H., DeBruyne, N., Wang, F., & Lin, L. (2024) · Molecular Therapy · doi:10.1016/j.ymthe.2024.11.025 · Cited by 79

Analyses of 600+ insect genomes reveal repetitive element dynamics and highlight biodiversity-scale repeat annotation challengesPreprint

Sproul, J. S., Hotaling, S., Heckenhauer, J., Powell, A., Marshall, D., Larracuente, A. M., Kelley, J. L., Pauls, S. U., & Frandsen, P. B. (2023) · Genome Research · doi:10.1101/gr.277387.122 · Cited by 74

Zebrafish transposable elements show extensive diversification in age, genomic distribution, and developmental expressionPreprint

Chang, N.-C., Rovira, Q., Wells, J. N., Feschotte, C., & Vaquerizas, J. M. (2022) · Genome Research · doi:10.1101/gr.275655.121 · Cited by 73

Regulatory transposable elements in the encyclopedia of DNA elements

Du, A. Y., Chobirko, J. D., Zhuo, X., Feschotte, C., & Wang, T. (2024) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51921-6 · Cited by 72

The Epigenetic Control of the Transposable Element Life Cycle in Plant Genomes and Beyond

Liu, P., Cuerda-Gil, D., Shahid, S., & Slotkin, R. K. (2022) · Annual Review of Genetics · doi:10.1146/annurev-genet-072920-015534 · Cited by 69

Harnessing eukaryotic retroelement proteins for transgene insertion into human safe-harbor loci

Zhang, X., Treeck, B. V., Horton, C. A., McIntyre, J. J. R., Palm, S. M., Shumate, J. L., & Collins, K. (2024) · Nature Biotechnology · doi:10.1038/s41587-024-02137-y · Cited by 65

Specificities and Dynamics of Transposable Elements in Land Plants

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A proposed metric set for evaluation of genome assembly quality

Wang, P., & Wang, F. (2022) · Trends in Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.tig.2022.10.005 · Cited by 59

HiTE: a fast and accurate dynamic boundary adjustment approach for full-length transposable element detection and annotation

Hu, K., Ni, P., Xu, M., Zou, Y. F., Chang, J., Gao, X., Li, Y., Ruan, J., Hu, B., & Wang, J. (2024) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-49912-8 · Cited by 57

On the Role of Transposable Elements in the Regulation of Gene Expression and Subgenomic Interactions in Crop Genomes

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The population genetics of adaptation through copy number variation in a fungal plant pathogen

Stalder, L., Oggenfuss, U., Mohd‐Assaad, N., & Croll, D. (2022) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.16435 · Cited by 57

Potential health risks of mRNA-based vaccine therapy: A hypothesis

Acevedo‐Whitehouse, K. A., & Bruno, R. (2023) · Medical Hypotheses · doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2023.111015 · Cited by 56

Mobile element variation contributes to population-specific genome diversification, gene regulation and disease risk

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Structural Variants and Speciation: Multiple Processes at PlayPreprint

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Transposons and non-coding regions drive the intrafamily differences of genome size in insects

Cong, Y., Ye, X., Yang, M., He, K., & Li, F. (2022) · iScience · doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.104873 · Cited by 54

All-RNA-mediated targeted gene integration in mammalian cells with rationally engineered R2 retrotransposons

Chen, Y., Luo, S., Hu, Y., Mao, B., Wang, X., Lu, Z., Shan, Q., Zhang, J., Wang, S., Feng, G., et al. (2024) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2024.06.020 · Cited by 50

The epigenetic hallmarks of immune cells in cancer

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Recent transposable element bursts are associated with the proximity to genes in a fungal plant pathogen

Oggenfuss, U., & Croll, D. (2023) · PLoS Pathogens · doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1011130 · Cited by 50

Helitrons: genomic parasites that generate developmental novelties

Barro‐Trastoy, D., & Köhler, C. (2024) · Trends in Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.tig.2024.02.002 · Cited by 52

Variation in mutation, recombination, and transposition rates in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulansPreprint

Wang, Y., McNeil, P., Abdulazeez, R., Pascual, M., Johnston, S. E., Keightley, P. D., & Obbard, D. J. (2023) · Genome Research · doi:10.1101/gr.277383.122 · Cited by 51

Reactivated endogenous retroviruses promote protein aggregate spreading

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piRNA processing by a trimeric Schlafen-domain nuclease

Podvalnaya, N., Bronkhorst, A. W., Lichtenberger, R., Hellmann, S., Nischwitz, E., Falk, T., Karaulanov, E., Butter, F., Falk, S., & Ketting, R. F. (2023) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06588-2 · Cited by 47

Diverse heterochromatin states restricting cell identity and reprogramming

McCarthy, R. L., Zhang, J., & Zaret, K. S. (2023) · Trends in Biochemical Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2023.02.007 · Cited by 47

Retrotransposon-mediated evolutionary rewiring of a pathogen response orchestrates a resistance phenotype in an insect host

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Introns: the “dark matter” of the eukaryotic genome

Girardini, K. N., Olthof, A. M., & Kanadia, R. (2023) · Frontiers in Genetics · doi:10.3389/fgene.2023.1150212 · Cited by 47

Retrotransposons as Drivers of Mammalian Brain Evolution

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The Role of Retrotransposons and Endogenous Retroviruses in Age-Dependent Neurodegenerative Disorders

Frost, B., & Dubnau, J. (2024) · Annual Review of Neuroscience · doi:10.1146/annurev-neuro-082823-020615 · Cited by 45

Systemic interindividual epigenetic variation in humans is associated with transposable elements and under strong genetic control

Gunasekara, C., MacKay, H., Scott, C. A., Li, S., Laritsky, E., Baker, M. S., Grimm, S. L., Jun, G., Li, Y., Chen, R., et al. (2023) · Genome biology · doi:10.1186/s13059-022-02827-3 · Cited by 44

Population comparative genomics discovers gene gain and loss during grapevine domestication

Long, Q., Cao, S., Huang, G., Wang, X., Liu, Z., Liu, W., Wang, Y., Xiao, H., Peng, Y., & Zhou, Y. (2024) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · doi:10.1093/plphys/kiae039 · Cited by 45

Systematic identification of cargo-mobilizing genetic elements reveals new dimensions of eukaryotic diversity

Gluck‐Thaler, E., & Vogan, A. A. (2024) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gkae327 · Cited by 42

A unified framework to analyze transposable element insertion polymorphisms using graph genomes

Groza, C., Chen, X., Wheeler, T. J., Bourque, G., & Goubert, C. (2024) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53294-2 · Cited by 45

Constitutive Heterochromatin in Eukaryotic Genomes: A Mine of Transposable Elements

Marsano, R. M., & Dimitri, P. (2022) · Cells · doi:10.3390/cells11050761 · Cited by 41

Retrotransposon activation during Drosophila metamorphosis conditions adult antiviral responses

Wang, L., Tracy, L., Su, W., Yang, F., Yu, F., Silverman, N. S., & Zhang, Z. Z. (2022) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/s41588-022-01214-9 · Cited by 42

Making the Genome Huge: The Case of Triatoma delpontei, a Triatominae Species with More than 50% of Its Genome Full of Satellite DNA

Mora, P., Pita, S., Montiel, E. E., Rico-Porras, J. M., Palomeque, T., Panzera, F., & Lorite, P. (2023) · Genes · doi:10.3390/genes14020371 · Cited by 40

Causes and Consequences of Varying Transposable Element Activity: An Evolutionary Perspective

Betancourt, A. J., Wei, K. H.-C., Huang, Y., & Lee, Y. C. G. (2024) · Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics · doi:10.1146/annurev-genom-120822-105708 · Cited by 46

Evolution of mouse circadian enhancers from transposable elements

Judd, J., Sanderson, H., & Feschotte, C. (2021) · Genome biology · doi:10.1186/s13059-021-02409-9 · Cited by 40

Transposable element annotation in non‐model species: The benefits of species‐specific repeat libraries using semi‐automated EDTA and DeepTE de novo pipelines

Bell, E. A., Butler, C. L., Oliveira, C., Marburger, S., Yant, L. J., & Taylor, M. I. (2021) · Molecular Ecology Resources · doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13489 · Cited by 40

Antiviral immunity triggered by infection-induced host transposable elements

Hale, B. G. (2021) · Current Opinion in Virology · doi:10.1016/j.coviro.2021.12.006 · Cited by 42

Single-cell chromatin accessibility and transposable element landscapes reveal shared features of tissue-residing immune cells

Simon, M., Stüve, P., Schmidleithner, L., Bittner, S., Beumer, N., Strieder, N., Schmidl, C., Pant, A., Gebhard, C., Eigenberger, A., et al. (2024) · Immunity · doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2024.06.015 · Cited by 37

Experimentally heat‐induced transposition increases drought tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

Thieme, M., Brêchet, A., Bourgeois, Y., Keller, B., Bucher, E., & Roulin, A. C. (2022) · New Phytologist · doi:10.1111/nph.18322 · Cited by 37

Themes and variations on piRNA-guided transposon control

Loubalová, Z., Κωνσταντινίδου, Π., & Haase, A. D. (2023) · Mobile DNA · doi:10.1186/s13100-023-00298-2 · Cited by 37

Forces driving transposable element load variation during Arabidopsis range expansion

Jiang, J., Xu, Y., Zhang, Z., Chen, J., Niu, X., Hou, X.-H., Li, X.-T., Wang, L., Zhang, Y. E., Ge, S., et al. (2023) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1093/plcell/koad296 · Cited by 36

Insertions and Deletions: Computational Methods, Evolutionary Dynamics, and Biological Applications

Redelings, B. D., Holmes, I., Lunter, G. A., Pupko, T., & Anisimova, M. O. (2024) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msae177 · Cited by 38

The Evolutionary Volte-Face of Transposable Elements: From Harmful Jumping Genes to Major Drivers of Genetic Innovation

Nicolau, M., Picault, N., & Moissiard, G. (2021) · Cells · doi:10.3390/cells10112952 · Cited by 37

Species-specific chromatin landscape determines how transposable elements shape genome evolution

Huang, Y., Shukla, H. G., & Lee, Y. C. G. (2022) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.81567 · Cited by 35

Chromosome-scale genome assembly reveals how repeat elements shape non-coding RNA landscapes active during newt limb regeneration

Brown, T., Mishra, K., Elewa, A., Iarovenko, S. I., Subramanian, E., Joven, A., Petzold, A., Fromm, B., Friedländer, M. R., Rikk, L., et al. (2025) · Cell Genomics · doi:10.1016/j.xgen.2025.100761 · Cited by 37

Endogenous retroelements as alarms for disruptions to cellular homeostasis

Lindholm, H. T., Chen, R. E., & Carvalho, D. D. D. (2022) · Trends in cancer · doi:10.1016/j.trecan.2022.09.001 · Cited by 34

Structural insight into Tn3 family transposition mechanism

Shkumatov, A. V., Aryanpour, N., Oger, C. A., Goossens, G., Hallet, B. F., & Efremov, R. G. (2022) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33871-z · Cited by 34

From Chaos Comes Order: Genetics and Genome Biology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

Oliveira, J. I. N., Yildirir, G., & Corradi, N. (2024) · Annual Review of Microbiology · doi:10.1146/annurev-micro-041522-105143 · Cited by 34

The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment

Klein, S. P., & Anderson, S. N. (2022) · Current Opinion in Plant Biology · doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2022.102277 · Cited by 34

Retrotransposon addiction promotes centromere function via epigenetically activated small RNAs

Shimada, A., Cahn, J., Ernst, E., Lynn, J. S., Grimanelli, D., Henderson, I. R., Kakutani, T., & Martienssen, R. A. (2024) · Nature Plants · doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01773-1 · Cited by 33

Evolution of Plant Genome Size and Composition

He, B., Liu, W., Li, J., Xiong, S., Jia, J., Lin, Q., Liu, H., & Cui, P. (2024) · Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics · doi:10.1093/gpbjnl/qzae078 · Cited by 33

The power of “controllers”: Transposon-mediated duplicated genes evolve towards neofunctionalization

Ma, H., Wang, M., Zhang, Y. E., & Tan, S. (2023) · Journal of genetics and genomics/Journal of Genetics and Genomics · doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2023.04.003 · Cited by 34

Strain-level diversity in sulfonamide biodegradation: adaptation of Paenarthrobacter to sulfonamides

Huang, Y. L., Pan, A., Song, Y., Deng, Y., Wu, A. L.-H., Lau, C. S.-H., & Zhang, T. (2024) · The ISME Journal · doi:10.1093/ismejo/wrad040 · Cited by 33

Regulation and function of transposable elements in cancer genomes

Lee, M., Ahmad, S. F., & Xu, J. (2024) · Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences · doi:10.1007/s00018-024-05195-2 · Cited by 34

Transposable elements as instructors of the immune system

Schmidleithner, L., Stüve, P., & Feuerer, M. (2025) · Nature reviews. Immunology · doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01172-3 · Cited by 35

Transposable element landscapes in aging Drosophila

Yang, N., Srivastav, S. P., Rahman, R., Ma, Q., Dayama, G., Li, S., Chinen, M., Lei, E. P., Rosbash, M., & Lau, N. C. (2022) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1010024 · Cited by 33

The Diverse Evolutionary Histories of Domesticated Metaviral Capsid Genes in Mammals

Henriques, W. S., Young, J. M., Nemudryi, A., Nemudraia, A., Wiedenheft, B., & Malik, H. S. (2024) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msae061 · Cited by 31

Heterologous survey of 130 DNA transposons in human cells highlights their functional divergence and expands the genome engineering toolbox

Zhang, T., Tan, S., Tang, N., Li, Y., Zhang, C., Sun, J., Guo, Y., Gao, H., Cai, Y., Sun, W. H., et al. (2024) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.007 · Cited by 32

TE Hub: A community-oriented space for sharing and connecting tools, data, resources, and methods for transposable element annotation

Elliott, T. A., Heitkam, T., Hubley, R. M., Quesneville, H., Suh, A., & Wheeler, T. J. (2021) · Mobile DNA · doi:10.1186/s13100-021-00244-0 · Cited by 31

HERV-W Envelope Triggers Abnormal Dopaminergic Neuron Process through DRD2/PP2A/AKT1/GSK3 for Schizophrenia Risk

Yan, Q., Wu, X., Zhou, P., Zhou, Y., Li, X., Liu, Z., Tan, H., Yao, W., Xia, Y., & Zhu, F. (2022) · Viruses · doi:10.3390/v14010145 · Cited by 34

Repeat Age Decomposition Informs an Ancient Set of Repeats Associated With Coleoid Cephalopod Divergence

Marino, A., Kizenko, A., Wong, W. Y., Ghiselli, F., & Simakov, O. (2022) · Frontiers in Genetics · doi:10.3389/fgene.2022.793734 · Cited by 31

Linkage mapping and genome annotation give novel insights into gene family expansions and regional recombination rate variation in the painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly

Shipilina, D., Näsvall, K., Höök, L., Vila, R., Talavera, G., & Backström, N. (2022) · Genomics · doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2022.110481 · Cited by 34

Shedding light on DNA methylation and its clinical implications: the impact of long-read-based nanopore technology

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