Transposable Element

— filed under: Transposable element

A transposable element (=TE) is a small stretch of DNA that can move from one location in the genome to another.

There are many different types of TEs that fall in two broad categories:

DNA transposons (move directly)
Retrotransposons (make a copy that is inserted elsewhere).

TEs can have many different structures. Their strategies for choosing where they insert can also vary widely from random to specific target sequences.

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