It appears that transposable elements are not useless DNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [IBM Discovery Could Shed New Light on Workings of the Human Genome - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The majority of this repetitive DNA is made up of transposable elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another example of "scholarship" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Activation of potentially transposable elements in maize is one of these.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

(It is, in fact, to this point the only known human transposable element.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxine Singer: Biochemist] Reference

Therefore, transposable elements can be seen as motors of genome evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Junk DNA, Linguistics and the scientific vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

But individual stretches do get selected, for example as transposable elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controlled Pathways] Reference

Transposition of hAT elements links transposable elements and VDJ recombination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revenge of Calvin and Hobbes - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Transposon: A transposon, or transposable genetic element, is a “jumping gene.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immune System Evolution #1: Comments on Annotated Bibliography - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Nearly half of the human genome is composed of transposable elements or jumping DNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [DNA seen through the eyes of a coder « Isegoria] Reference

These proved to be transposable elements that could regulate gene expressions in precise ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

In wheat, about 90% of the genome consists of repeated sequences and 68% of transposable elements2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signature in the Cell: self-contradiction and repetition - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Genome canalization: the coevolution of transposable and interspersed repetitive elements with single copy DNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [All that matters] Reference

This, says Craft, is "untrue and impossible, though in the first place Liszt did not have transposable methods.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Liszt Learning] Reference

It is recognized that Dt is only one among a number of silent, but potentially transposable elements, that are present in maize genomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

In addition, transposable elements are directly recruited by host genes, not by any accidental, random or non-directed fortuitous event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Egnor responds, falls flat on his face - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

When other transposable elements are cloned it will be possible to compare their structural and numerical differences among various strains of maize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

Her lab focuses on understanding the molecular response of plants to stress, plant hormone response pathways and cataloging transposable element insertions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

The mitochondrial genes could be derived from transposable elements, plastids or viruses and could come from either the nuclear genome or a bacterial genome.    From Wordnik.com.  [A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria] Reference

It was this event that, basically, was responsible for activations of potentially transposable elements that are carried in a silent state in the maize genome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

Their study focused on the origin and spread of transposable elements in the genome, many of which are related to certain genetic disorders, such as hemophilia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Day in the Ketchup Mine] Reference

Provide a specific explanation for how the great majority of transposable elements in the human genome can be functional while showing clear signs of being inactive.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers] Reference

The identity between male and female, or at least the transposable or interchangeable elements between the two sexes had long been an undertheme of Shelley's writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis] Reference

Yet, no virus genome has been detected in the immediate progeny of infected plants or in those plants shown to have a transposable element newly inserted at a known gene locus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

'The two terms are so transposable, I need not trouble myself much to find out which.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference

Rubin GM, Spradling AC (1982) Genetic transformation of Drosophila with transposable element vectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Pachter L (2006) Identification of transposable elements using multiple alignments of related genomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The researchers show that a number of transcription factors bind repeats found in transposable elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayblab] Reference

The researchers wanted to understand why the transposable elements weren't activated in the sperm cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Given their intrinsic sequence redundancy, transcriptome-level analyses of transposable elements are scarce.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Steller H, Pirrotta V (1985) A transposable P vector that confers selectable G418 resistance to Drosophila larvae.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

GENOME RESEARCH in paper titled, "Evolution of the mammalian transcription factor binding repertoire via transposable elements".    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

In this study we describe a gene trap system in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) based on the maize transposable elements Ac / Ds. Results.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

We find that the vast majority of transposable element insertions either upregulate or have no detectable effect on gene transcription.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Retrotransposons are transposable elements that proliferate within eukaryotic genomes through a process involving reverse transcription.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference