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SUMMARY:Transposable elements and their hosts: from conflicts to benefits
DTSTART:20220921T110000
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DESCRIPTION:Cédric Feschotte                   Professo
 r in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Cornell University\n
 Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences that colonize genomes
  and threaten genome integrity. As a result\, several mechanisms appear to
  have emerged during eukaryotic evolution to suppress TE activity. However
 \, TEs are ubiquitous and account for a prominent fraction of most eukaryo
 tic genomes. We argue that the evolutionary success of TEs cannot be expla
 ined solely by evasion from host control mechanisms. Rather\, some TEs hav
 e evolved commensal and even mutualistic strategies that mitigate the cost
  of their propagation. These coevolutionary processes promote the emergenc
 e of complex cellular activities\, which pave the way for cooption of TE s
 equences for organismal function and genetic innovation.\n\nhttps://blogs.
 cornell.edu/feschottelab/
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