Recent horizontal transfer of transposable elements in <i>Drosophila</i>.

ABSTRACT: Transposable elements are genetic elements also known as "jumping genes" that increase their copy number within a host through various mechanisms of transposition. TEs can also move between species through unknown intermediaries in a process known as horizontal transfer, infecting novel genomes and increasing in copy number. While many individual invasions have been documented, a large dataset of recent horizontal transfer events that will allow us to understand larger more general HT patterns has not been assembled. In this manuscript we used almost 400 dipteran genomes to uncover 637 recent transposon invasions, mostly in Drosophila. The majority of transfers occurred between closely related species, with the cosmopolitan melanogaster group showing the highest recent transf

SUBMITTER: Pritam S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12636474 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature