The work also revealed that ZBED6 is a "transposon" - a piece of DNA that inserted into the genome at some point in evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The transposon is usually a gene that codes for a protein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immune System Evolution #1: Comments on Annotated Bibliography - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The researchers harnessed a little piece of DNA called a transposon -- sometimes known as a.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABC News: ABCNews] Reference

His nonviral method uses a jumping gene, called a transposon, to insert therapeutic genes into target cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starbulletin Headlines] Reference

The genetic difference between the lab-bred and wild flies is a single transposon, which is absent in lab strains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

A transposon is a segment of DNA that can replicate itself and move around to different positions within the genome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

This type of gene is known as "transposon", and is of great importance in clinical medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology or Medicine 1983 - Press Release] Reference

It has a transposon in it, a kind of genetic parasite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poynter Center on "Intelligent Design, Science Education, and Public Reason" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

BTW, I'm curious what inspired the transposon hypothesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

I agree that it's very strong evidence for the transposon hypothesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

With that terminology in hand, we can discuss the transposon hypothesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immune System Evolution #1: Comments on Annotated Bibliography - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

There was no reason to expect this, except for the transposon hypothesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

The rde-1 gene, RNA interference, and transposon silencing in C. elegans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine] Reference

How Hutchinson 2006 in PNAS used transposon method to identify essential genes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence of Design? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

This is the other side of the transposon “life cycle”, the insertion phase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revenge of Calvin and Hobbes - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

What I would challenge is the idea that the RAG transposon was inserted randomly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] 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

They noticed similarities between the RAG process and bacterial transposon processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

The inserted transposon sequence would have the effect of splitting the gene into two segments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

Most impressive was the prediction that a free-living transposon homologous to RAG would exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

If there were thousands of insertions of this transposon, then I agree that insertion was probably random.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

T-cell telomere therapeutic cloning therapeutic virus totipotency toxic waste transgenic species transposon.    From Wordnik.com.  [21. Life Sciences] Reference

When this receptor gene was expressed, the transposon was activated, and snipped itself out of the receptor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immune System Evolution #1: Comments on Annotated Bibliography - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The resulting RAG proteins snipped out the transposon and pasted it into a new location in the genome (step 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

Suppose the transposon became inserted within a pre-existing, non-rearranging antibody gene (see Figure 3, step 1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

They pinpointed transposon-derived DNA by matching up the shared sequences with known mobile elements in a database.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controlled Pathways] Reference

She spent part of the summer screening a transposon library and now she will get to map the transposon insertion sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

There could have been thousands of insertion events as this transposon bounced around in genomes over millions of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

If you can understand this basic terminology, you should be well on your way to understanding the transposon hypothesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immune System Evolution #1: Comments on Annotated Bibliography - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

If they're only in the antibody genes, would this be strong evidence that the transposon entered the antibody genes first?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

Close to 50% of our genome consists of viral and transposon elements that have invaded the genome in the course of evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine] Reference

So there seem to be some reasons to be doubtful that the transposon hypothesis will result in an immediate selective advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Applegate's Attack] Reference

Plasmid- or transposon-mediated resistance provides the bacteria with pre-evolved genes refined to express high-level resistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [An ever-deepening Egnorance - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

What good can half a transposon, with its excision sites and start codons mutated and random stop codons introduced, possibly be?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continued Uncommon Junk Talk - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Boeke's group first invented the transposon chip in 2006 for use in yeast.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In a previous study we reported that in a few rice strains the DNA transposon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

(PB) transposon/transposase system has been recently adapted for iPSC generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The research team compared transposon sites first identified in the original published human.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference