Transposable elements (TEs) promote genetic innovation but also threaten genome stability.
Despite multiple layers of host defence, TEs actively shape mammalian-specific …

Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of eukaryotic genomes. However, the
extent of their impact on genome evolution, function, and disease remain a matter of intense …

Gene exchange between viruses and their hosts acts as a key facilitator of horizontal gene
transfer and is hypothesized to be a major driver of evolutionary change. Our understanding …

Transposable elements are abundant in the human genome, and great strides have been
made in pinpointing variations in these repetitive sequences using whole-genome …

Retroviruses infect a broad range of vertebrate hosts that includes amphibians, reptiles, fish,
birds and mammals. In addition, a typical vertebrate genome contains thousands of loci …

In this review, we comprehensively present the function of epigenetic regulations in normal
placental development as well as in a prominent disease of placental origin, preeclampsia …

Nearly half of the human genome consists of endogenous retroelements (EREs) and their
genetic remnants, a small fraction of which carry the potential to propagate in the host …

Viruses have been infecting their host cells since the dawn of life, and this extremely long-
term coevolution gave rise to some surprising consequences for the entire tree of life. It is …

The co-option of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) is increasingly recognized as a recurrent
theme in placental biology, which has far-reaching implications for our understanding of …

Selfish genetic elements comprise significant fractions of mammalian genomes. In rare
instances, host genomes domesticate segments of these elements for function. Using a …