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| Stress and transposable elements: co-evolution or useful parasites? |
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| Author(s): Capy P, Gasperi G, Biemont C, Bazin C |
| Source: HEREDITY Volume: 85 Issue: 2 Pages: 101-106 Published: AUG 2000 |
| Times Cited: 74 References: 64 |
| Abstract: The activity of transposable elements can be induced by environmental and population factors and in particular by stresses in various organisms. A consequence of the increase in transposable element mobility is the creation of new genetic variability that can be useful in the face of stressful conditions. In this review, results supporting this hypothesis are presented and discussed. The main question is how stress induces the activity of transposable elements. We discuss hypotheses based upon the existence of promoters or fixation sites of transcription activators in the untranslated regions of transposable elements, similar to those found in regulatory regions of host defence genes. |
| Document Type: Review |
| Language: English |
| Reprint Address: Capy, P (reprint author), CNRS, Lab Populat Genet & Evolut, UPR 9034, F-91198 Gif Sur Yvette, France |
Addresses:
1. CNRS, Lab Populat Genet & Evolut, UPR 9034, F-91198 Gif Sur Yvette, France
2. Univ Pavia, Medfly Grp, Dept Anim Biol, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
3. Univ Lyon 1, UMR 5558, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France |
| Publisher: BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD, P O BOX 88, OSNEY MEAD, OXFORD OX2 0NE, OXON, ENGLAND |
| Subject Category: Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity |
| IDS Number: 355QU |
| ISSN: 0018-067X |
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