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

Transposable elements (TEs) play powerful and varied evolutionary and functional roles, and are widespread in most eukaryotic genomes. Research into their unique biology has driven the creation of a large coll...

Tyler A. Elliott, Tony Heitkam, Robert Hubley, Hadi Quesneville… in Mobile DNA (2021)

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Twenty years of transposable element analysis in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile repetitive DNA sequences shown to be major drivers of genome evolution. As the first plant to have its genome sequenced and analyzed at the genomic scale, Arabidopsis thalia...

Hadi Quesneville in Mobile DNA (2020)

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RepetDB: a unified resource for transposable element references

Thanks to their ability to move around and replicate within genomes, transposable elements (TEs) are perhaps the most important contributors to genome plasticity and evolution. Their detection and annotation a...

Joëlle Amselem, Guillaume Cornut, Nathalie Choisne, Michael Alaux… in Mobile DNA (2019)

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Linking the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium bread wheat reference genome sequence to wheat genetic and phenomic data

The Wheat@URGI portal has been developed to provide the international community of researchers and breeders with access to the bread wheat reference genome sequence produced by the International Wheat Genome S...

Michael Alaux, Jane Rogers, Thomas Letellier, Raphaël Flores… in Genome Biology (2018)

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International Congress on Transposable elements (ICTE 2016) in Saint Malo: mobile elements under the sun of Brittany

The third international conference on Transposable Elements (ICTE) was held 16–19 April 2016 in Saint Malo, France. Organized by the French Transposition Community (Research group of the CNRS: “Mobile genetic ...

Pascale Lesage, Mireille Bétermier, Antoine Bridier-Nahmias, Michael Chandler… in Mobile DNA (2016)

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Comprehensive repeatome annotation reveals strong potential impact of repetitive elements on tomato ripening

Plant genomes are populated by different types of repetitive elements including transposable elements (TEs) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs) that can have a strong impact on genome size and dynamic as well a...

Ophélie Jouffroy, Surya Saha, Lukas Mueller, Hadi Quesneville… in BMC Genomics (2016)

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Erratum to: Understanding Brassicaceae evolution through ancestral genome reconstruction

Florent Murat, Alexandra Louis, Florian Maumus, Alex Armero, Richard Cook… in Genome Biology (2016)

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Understanding Brassicaceae evolution through ancestral genome reconstruction

Brassicaceae is a family of green plants of high scientific and economic interest, including thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), cruciferous vegetables (cabbages) and rapeseed.

Florent Murat, Alexandra Louis, Florian Maumus, Alix Armero… in Genome Biology (2015)

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Evolution of the EKA family of powdery mildew avirulence-effector genes from the ORF 1 of a LINE retrotransposon

The Avrk1 and Avra10 avirulence (AVR) genes encode effectors that increase the pathogenicity of the fungus Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei (Bgh), the powdery mildew pathogen, in susceptible barley plants. In resis...

Joelle Amselem, Marielle Vigouroux, Simone Oberhaensli, James K. M. Brown… in BMC Genomics (2015)

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A call for benchmarking transposable element annotation methods

DNA derived from transposable elements (TEs) constitutes large parts of the genomes of complex eukaryotes, with major impacts not only on genomic research but also on how organisms evolve and function. Althoug...

Douglas R. Hoen, Glenn Hickey, Guillaume Bourque, Josep Casacuberta… in Mobile DNA (2015)

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Sex and parasites: genomic and transcriptomic analysis of Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae, the biotrophic and plant-castrating anther smut fungus

The genus Microbotryum includes plant pathogenic fungi afflicting a wide variety of hosts with anther smut disease. Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae infects Silene latifolia and replaces host pollen with fungal spo...

Michael H Perlin, Joelle Amselem, Eric Fontanillas, Su San Toh, Zehua Chen… in BMC Genomics (2015)

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Whole genome comparative analysis of transposable elements provides new insight into mechanisms of their inactivation in fungal genomes

Transposable Elements (TEs) are key components that shape the organization and evolution of genomes. Fungi have developed defense mechanisms against TE invasion such as RIP (Repeat-Induced Point mutation), MIP...

Joëlle Amselem, Marc-Henri Lebrun, Hadi Quesneville in BMC Genomics (2015)

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The oak gene expression atlas: insights into Fagaceae genome evolution and the discovery of genes regulated during bud dormancy release

Many northern-hemisphere forests are dominated by oaks. These species extend over diverse environmental conditions and are thus interesting models for studies of plant adaptation and speciation. The genomic to...

Isabelle Lesur, Grégoire Le Provost, Pascal Bento, Corinne Da Silva… in BMC Genomics (2015)

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Organization and evolution of transposable elements along the bread wheat chromosome 3B

The 17 Gb bread wheat genome has massively expanded through the proliferation of transposable elements (TEs) and two recent rounds of polyploidization. The assembly of a 774 Mb reference sequence of wheat chro...

Josquin Daron, Natasha Glover, Lise **ault, Sébastien Theil… in Genome Biology (2014)

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International Congress on Transposable Elements (ICTE) 2012 in Saint Malo and the sea of TE stories

An international conference on Transposable Elements (TEs) was held 21–24 April 2012 in Saint Malo, France. Organized by the French Transposition Community (GDR Elements Génétiques Mobiles et Génomes, CNRS) an...

Abdelkader Ainouche, Mireille Bétermier, Mick Chandler, Richard Cordaux… in Mobile DNA (2012)

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LTR retrotransposons in rice (Oryza sativa, L.): recent burst amplifications followed by rapid DNA loss

LTR retrotransposons are one of the main causes for plant genome size and structure evolution, along with polyploidy. The characterization of their amplification and subsequent elimination of the genomes is th...

Clémentine Vitte, Olivier Panaud, Hadi Quesneville in BMC Genomics (2007)

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Recurrent insertion and duplication generate networks of transposable element sequences in the Drosophila melanogaster genome

The recent availability of genome sequences has provided unparalleled insights into the broad-scale patterns of transposable element (TE) sequences in eukaryotic genomes. Nevertheless, the difficulties that TE...

Casey M Bergman, Hadi Quesneville, Dominique Anxolabéhère… in Genome Biology (2006)

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P elements and MITE relatives in the whole genome sequence of Anopheles gambiae

Miniature Inverted-repeat Terminal Elements (MITEs), which are particular class-II transposable elements (TEs), play an important role in genome evolution, because they have very high copy numbers and display ...

Hadi Quesneville, Danielle Nouaud, Dominique Anxolabéhère in BMC Genomics (2006)