Table 1.

Transposon-Related Host Mutations

Host mutation Example Reference
Insertion and excision Ds-like TE in fungus A. immersus Colot et al. 1998
Duplications, inversions, translocations (due to  homozygous recombination or DNA repair)Many examples in C. elegans Ty elements inS. cerevisiae Holmes 1998 Kim et al. 1998
Transport of short signals (exons,  promoters) during transposition Tpn1 in Japanese morning glory LINE-1 inH. sapiens Takahashi et al. 1999 Pickeral et al. 2000
Horizontal gene transfer by viral elements envgenes in invertebrate retroviruses Malik et al. 2000
Expression of host genes under  TE's own promotersPol II promoters inR. rattus TEs Tomilin 1999
Cooption of TE domains by hostV(D)J recombination Telomerase Agrawal et al. 1998 Eickbush 1997
TF-derived pseudogenesVertebrate genomes Brosius 1999