Trends in Genetics

cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social

01 October 2026 08:13

"How mutagenic are transposable elements?" by S. Schaack & colleagues FREE till Nov. 18th at authors.elsevier.com/a/1nsRO_3rsx...

Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺

plantepigenetics.ch

05 June 2026 10:22

We even managed to identify the one autonomous Helitron copy that mobilised the non-autonomous ones. Thanks to a super sensitive method we were also able to detect somatic insertions events in the gigantic wheat genome 😅

Maya Voichek

mayavoichek.bsky.social

19 March 2025 06:39

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

Julius Brennecke

juliusbrennecke.bsky.social

19 March 2025 06:39

In the ‘90s, Pelisson et al. found that gypsy retrotransposons in flies can go viral—literally—thanks to an envelope gene. Now, @mayavoichek.bsky.social uncovers a wild new path to retrotransposon infectivity. A fascinating story—see Maya's thread www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2