Guest Editors:
Robert Kofler, PhD, Institut für Populationsgenetik, Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria
Jürgen Schmitz, PD PhD, Institute of Experimental Pathology, University of Münster, Germany
Genome Biology is calling for submissions to our Collection on transposons and related genetic elements and their role in shaping genome evolution.
Robert Kofler, PhD, Institut für Populationsgenetik, Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria
Robert studied agriculture and obtained a PhD in molecular plant breeding. He is currently Group leader at the Vetmeduni Vienna. Robert first came into contact with transposable elements (TEs) during his doctoral work, but as a source of frustration rather than a research focus, as TEs thwarted his efforts to develop molecular markers for the highly repetitive rye genome. Soon this frustration turned into a passion. Robert is now fascinated by the evolutionary conflict between TEs and their hosts and how this interaction shapes species genomes.
Jürgen Schmitz, PD PhD, Institute of Experimental Pathology, University of Münster, Germany
Jürgen Schmitz received his PhD in evolutionary zoology on social insects in 1997 at the University of Berlin. For five years, he led a primate genetics and evolution group at the German Primate Center in Göttingen and established retrotransposons as molecular markers. In 2003, he moved to the University of Münster as a group leader in the evolution of mammalian small RNAs, exonization of transposons, and retrotransposons as significant phylogenetic markers. He contributed to many vertebrate genome sequencing projects. His group developed user-friendly bioinformatic tools to screen and analyze genomes for evolutionary diagnostic transposons, statistics, and parallelized selection analyses.
Genome Biology is calling for submissions to our Collection on transposons and related genetic elements and their role in shaping genome evolution.
Transposable elements have emerged as integral contributors to genomic diversity, adaptation, and evolution. Their mobility shapes the architecture of genomes, influencing gene regulation, genome size, and ultimately, the phenotypic variability within populations. Unraveling the dynamics of transposons provides insights into the evolutionary forces governing the development and adaptation of organisms over time.
This collection aims to showcase the latest research on the role of transposons and related genetic elements in shaping genome evolution. Topics accepted for submission include, but are not limited to, the following:
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