The research team also discovered a gene called sdg-1 that helps regulate "jumping genes"—DNA sequences that tend to move or copy themselves to different locations on a chromosome.

Jumping genes accelerate bacterial evolution in the laboratory. May 13, 2025. Large-scale study reveals functional diversity of DNA transposons and expands genome engineering toolbox.

Transposons, or “jumping genes” – DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance.

The genome structure — how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism — is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms. A team at the University of Tokyo has developed ...

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

Transposons, so-called jumping genes, are a threat to genomes, so plants work hard to prevent them from mobilizing and re-inserting into the genome. Spirodela polyrhiza, the most ancient member of ...

Keith Slotkin, PhD, first became interested in transposable elements (TE), colloquially known as “jumping genes,” as an undergraduate student. “They just broke all the rules,” he said in ...

They have ‘jumping genes,’ like humans A common octopus. Photo: Wikimedia Commons A study published last year found that octopuses carry transposons, or “jumping genes,” that can jump ...

A Japan Sea male. They cannot survive in freshwater habitats. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 31, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Ishikawa at ...

Research performed in the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering (CBSE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that mobile repetitive elements–also known as transposons or ...