Researchers have known that retrotransposon insertion in the centromere has contributed to this variation and rapid evolution. However, the mechanisms of insertion have not been known. To fill the ...

Researchers have known that retrotransposon insertion in the centromere has contributed to this variation and rapid evolution. However, the mechanisms of insertion have not been known. To fill the ...

We propose that silencing of retrotransposons occurs by cosuppression during early embryogenesis, but that this process is imperfect and produces a mosaic pattern of retrotransposon expression in ...

Following translation, reverse transcriptase converts the retrotransposon RNA into double-stranded DNA. This DNA copy of the retrotransposon then integrates, at a new location, into the genome of ...