Science news articles about 'mobile elements'

... seem to have been geographically separated for a long time. Based on an analysis using mobile elements, the population on the island of Tasmania seemed genetically far distanced compared to other ...

... during desiccation, "it may be occasionally added to deprotected telomeres, as we previously demonstrated for mobile elements (Gladyshev and Arkhipova, 2007)," Arkhipova says. "Or it may simply not ...

... constitute a significant fraction of the genomes of most higher organisms. Indeed, it is estimated that these mobile elements, which include one or more genes, make up as much as half of the genetic ...

... "jumping," held true for neurons in human brains had been a matter of some debate. "It is known that these mobile elements are important in lower organisms, such as plants and yeast, but in mammals ...

... group. Genome Res. doi:10.1101/gr.092197.109 2. Mobile ... reference genomes and found that a significant number of these were mediated by mobile elements, indicating that they play a substantial role ...

... . A second paper takes a stab at explaining how one actively mobile element discovered by ISU professor emeritus Donald Robertson, the Mu transposon, chooses its moves within the ...