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- Simão et al. analyzed gene expression in two Drosophila species that produce sterile hybrids, with results supporting a role for sex-biased gene and TE expression in reproductive isolation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf247 #genome #evolution #TEsky
- #TEsky Report on the seventh Japanese meeting on biological function and evolution through interactions between hosts and transposable elements doi.org/10.1186/s131...
- #TEsky EDTA-GUI: a plant-optimized graphical implementation of the EDTA pipeline enabling lineage-level classification and analysis doi.org/10.1186/s128...
- #TEsky Deciphering octoploid strawberry evolution with serial LTR similarity matrices for subgenome partition doi.org/10.1093/hr/u... Paper from last year I missed
- REFEREE 1: “I conclude with a simple, direct statement - this is the best paper I have read all year!” #TransparentPeerReview Co-evolving infectivity and expression patterns drive the diversification of endogenous retroviruses @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
- #TEsky Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
- 🚨Our story is published! Same bones but + dissection of MERVL’s role integrating signals from #ZGA factors, & + about pathological DUX4 activation of NOXA #TEsky. Thanks to all revs for their helpful comments improving the ms. Even #rev3 - until they ghosted us 😜 www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
- Happy to share our first #bluetorial & our latest #preprint, lead by postdoc @paulchammas.bsky.social. We used CRISPRa to disentangle the close relationship between Dux and MERVL elements in the induction of the 2-cell like state: #TEsky #MERVL www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/8)
- Very happy that this part of my postdoc work is now out as a preprint!! Our findings reveal a new mechanism by which retroviral pandemics may have shaped primate brain evolution 🧬🐒🧠 This was a true team effort! w/ @ofeliakarlsson.bsky.social @raquelgarza.bsky.social @jakobssonlab.bsky.social #TEsky
- New preprint from our lab: ‘Retroviral insertions contributed to the divergence of human and chimpanzee brains’. Very proud of this piece which took almost a decade to finish. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- 🐻❄️❄️ New paper alert! From me Ben & @immler.bsky.social “Diverging transposon activity among polar bear sub-populations inhabiting different climate zones” (Godden, Rix & Immler, 2025). 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... A thread 🧵. #climate #transposons #TESky #polarbear #ursus @biouea.bsky.social
- Roussel, Suh, @fjruizruano.bsky.social & @amdioncote.bsky.social characterized TE content in naturally occurring killifish hybrids, finding higher TE load and accumulation of Neptune subfamilies in hybrids. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf266 #evobio #molbio #TEsky
- ☕ @katerinakraft.bsky.social @sedonamurphy.bsky.social @mattjones.bsky.social et al. identify extrachromosomal DNA(ecDNA)-interacting elements (EIEs) enriched for #TransposableElements in #ColorectalCancer. EIE 14 integrated within ecDNA acts as an enhancer to promote cancer fitness. bit.ly/49iFC7C
- 🚨 New preprint alert! Our latest work from @immler.bsky.social lab 🐟🧬 Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells #TESky #TE #piRNA #miRNA #zebrafish #DanioDigest 🔗 Read here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread 🧵...
- Thrilled to share our new review in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development on TE driven innovation in gene regulation🤘. I am honored to be part of this with two major TE aficionados @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and @trono-lab.bsky.social #TEsky #TEworldwide authors.elsevier.com/c/1m6MC,LqAZ...
- Time to kick off #EMBOMobileGenome for 2025! A great selection of speakers and posters on the agenda! #TEWorldwide #TESky
- Our latest paper on a histone methyltransferase-independent function of PRC2 controlling small RNA dynamics during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium is now published in #NAR. #RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs #PRC2 #DNAelimination 1/5 academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
- Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- #TEsky The phenotypic variation of widefins medaka is due to the insertion of a giant transposon containing a viral genome within hoxca cluster doi.org/10.1093/gene...
- Come be our head of bioinformatics at @mrc-lms.bsky.social ! Our bioinformatics team are closely involved with lots of interesting science and we love working with them. Topics inc. development, cancer, metabolism, aging, TEs (my favourite of course 😜) #TEsky lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
- Red devil spiders from the Canary Islands have a genome half the size of mainland counterparts - Pisarenco, @jrozasub.bsky.social et al. show how purifying selection against slightly deleterious DNA and TE insertions is the primary mechanism. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf206 #evobio #molbio #TEsky
- An & Nam investigated chromosome size and TE organization in ten butterfly species, showing lepidopterans have denser TEs in smaller chromosomes, with nonallelic homologous recombination as a potential driving force. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf137 #genome #evolution #TEsky
- @robinaraya.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social et al. investigate TEs in four large inversions in Atlantic cod - TEs accumulate in breakpoints, suggesting they drive inversions through ectopic recombination. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131 #genome #evolution #TEsky
- Extremely excited to share that I’m joining Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! We will explore how the mobile genome works—how transposons shape us, our DNA and how they can be harnessed to build useful technologies. #NewPI #RNAsky #TEsky thawanilab.org
- At @eseb.bsky.social #ESEB2025 and want to connect with other researchers working on transposable elements? Take a look at the #TEWorldwide #TEsky feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
- Looking forward to attending my first #ESEB meeting in Barcelona next week #ESEB2025! Interested in the adaptive potential of transposons? I’ll be presenting my latest work in the Ecological Genomics of Coevolution satellite symposium on Weds 20th - feel free to join! #TESky #TEworldwide
- An & Nam investigated chromosome size and TE organization in ten butterfly species, showing lepidopterans have denser TEs in smaller chromosomes, with nonallelic homologous recombination as a potential driving force. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf137 #genome #evolution #TEsky
- #TEsky Structural basis for the evolution of a domesticated group II intron–like reverse transcriptase to function in host cell DNA repair doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
- Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... 🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
- Very happy to share our protocols paper for CELLO-seq. This will make single cell long read RNA-seq more accessible and provides analysis guidelines. We hope this helps the #transposon #TEsky community and folks working on #singleCell isoform and allelic #gene expression. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Zeng et al. analyzed TE diversity in crustaceans, finding major genome size variation linked to TE content and evidence for two waves of TE expansion. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf115 #genome #evolution #TEsky #crustacea
- @rpianezza.bsky.social @almoroscarpa.bsky.social, A. Haidar, @signor-molevol.bsky.social & @rokofler.bsky.social investigated 11 TEs in D. melanogaster that added ~1 Mbp via horizontal transfer, likely from other Drosophila spp. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf143 #evobio #drosophila #TEsky
- Vertebrate retrotransposons are the future of gene therapy. But how do they insert their genes? 🔥🔥 Thrilled to share our new work now published with Kathy Collins, @nogaleslab.bsky.social @berkeleymcb.bsky.social where we investigate this with #cryoEM & biochemistry in 🧪 and cells! #RNAsky #TEsky
