Naslov
Epigenetics and Transposable Elements

Autori
Despot Slade, Evelin

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, diplomski rad, preddiplomski

Fakultet
Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet

Mjesto
Zagreb

Datum
10.07

Godina
2013

Stranica
16

Mentor
Besendorfer, Višnja

Ključne riječi
epigenetics ; transposable elements

Sažetak
Transposable elements are mobile DNA sequences that are widely distributed in bacteria, plants and animals. They are a common component in many epigenetic mechanisms, as they generally exist in inactive ‘epigenetically silenced’ form. New insight challenges the view on TEs as genomic parasites and gives them profoundly generative role in genome evolution. TEs accumulate because of, not despite, epigenetic mechanisms. Although silencing slows the pace of genome restructuring to an evolutionary time scale, mobile elements within genome have indubitably driven genome evolution in diverse ways.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Biologija

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