Mobile genetic elements

Mobile genetic elements
Mobile genetic elements in the Cell (left) and in what ways they can be acquired (right).

Mobile genetic elements (MGE) are a type of DNA that can move around within the genome. They include:

The total of all mobile genetic elements in a genome may be referred to as the mobilome.

Barbara McClintock was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements".[1]

See also

References

  • Miller, W. J.; Capy, P., eds. (2004), Mobile genetic elements : protocols and genomic applications, Humana Press, ISBN 1-58829-007-7 .
  • Shapiro, J.A., ed. (1983), Mobile genetic elements, Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-638680-3 .
  1. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983". nobelprize.org. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1983/. Retrieved 14 July 2010. 
v · d · eGenetics: homologous recombination / mobile genetic elements
Primarily prokaryotic
Occurs in eukaryotes
B bsyn: dna (repl, cycl, reco, repr) · tscr (fact, tcrg, nucl, rnat, rept, ptts) · tltn (risu, pttl, nexn) · dnab, rnab/runp · stru (domn, 1°, 2°, 3°, 4°)

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