Insertion sequence inversions mediated by ectopic recombination between terminal inverted repeats

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 5; no. 12; p. e15654
• Main Authors: Ling, Alison, Cordaux, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 20.12.2010; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Bacteria; Base Sequence; Biodiversity and Ecology; Biology; Bordetella; Bordetella bronchiseptica; Bordetella pertussis; Chromosome Inversion; Culex pipiens; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA - genetics; DNA Transposable Elements; Drosophila simulans; Environmental Sciences; Eukaryotes; Evolution; Gene sequencing; Genome; Genomes; Genomic Instability; Genomics; Homologous recombination; Homology; Insects; Insertion; Insertion sequences; Inversions; Molecular Sequence Data; Nucleotide sequence; Phylogeny; Prokaryotes; Promoter Regions, Genetic; Recombination, Genetic; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; Sequence Inversion; Shigella; Stability; Terminal Repeat Sequences; Transposons; Trends; Whooping cough; Wolbachia; Wolbachia - genetics; France

Transposable elements are widely distributed and diverse in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes, as exemplified by DNA transposons. As a result, they represent a considerable source of genomic variation, for example through ectopic (i.e. non-allelic homologous) recombination events between transposable...