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My first co–first author paper with the amazing PoPo @popomicro.bsky.social is now on bioRxiv ! 🧬
We found that Tn7-like transposons - known for finding specific insertion sites before they jump - aren’t just in bacteria. They're in archaea distributed across all major superphyla!
We found that Tn7-like transposons - known for finding specific insertion sites before they jump - aren’t just in bacteria. They're in archaea distributed across all major superphyla!
Tn7 family bacterial transposons known for tightly controlled target site selection are distributed across Asgard and archaeal groups https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.667033v1
July 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
My first co–first author paper with the amazing PoPo @popomicro.bsky.social is now on bioRxiv ! 🧬
We found that Tn7-like transposons - known for finding specific insertion sites before they jump - aren’t just in bacteria. They're in archaea distributed across all major superphyla!
We found that Tn7-like transposons - known for finding specific insertion sites before they jump - aren’t just in bacteria. They're in archaea distributed across all major superphyla!
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Happy Transposon Day! 🧬➰🧬 Commemorating Barbara McClintock's birthday (June 16th, 1902-1992). #TransposonDay2025
June 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy Transposon Day! 🧬➰🧬 Commemorating Barbara McClintock's birthday (June 16th, 1902-1992). #TransposonDay2025
In eukaryotes, some transposons target telomeres; in Drosophila, they even replace them. Peters lab and Barabas group show that bacteria with linear genomes also harbor diverse telomeric transposons.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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March 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
In eukaryotes, some transposons target telomeres; in Drosophila, they even replace them. Peters lab and Barabas group show that bacteria with linear genomes also harbor diverse telomeric transposons.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
@joepeterslab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
@joepeterslab.bsky.social