Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition, all TEs in both class 1 and class 2 contain flanking direct repeats (Figure 3). Flanking direct repeats are ...

Today, McClintock is also recognized for her groundbreaking cytogenetic techniques, as well as her early speculations on the concept of epigenetics. Thanks to these and other valuable ...

But, she cautioned, so far the theory “is not supported by any data.” Indeed, Andrea Ciani, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Padova, thinks that a variety of factors, including genes ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes" – DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance. Cornell ...

However, researchers in Marí-Ordóñez's group now show that Spirodela polyrhiza—the oldest member of the duckweed family—does ...