14 June 2007, BBC News: Human genome further unravelled, backup Citat: "...it suggests genes, so called junk DNA and other elements, together weave an intricate control network...He said: "The genome looks like it is far more of a network of RNA transcripts that are all collaborating together. Some go off and make proteins; [and] quite a few, although we know they are there, we really do not have a good understanding of what they do. "This leads to a much more complex picture." The researchers now hope to scale up their efforts to look at the other 99% of the genome..."
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University of Rochester (2007, August 31). One Species' Entire Genome Discovered Inside Another's. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 10, 2007, backup Citat: "..."This study establishes the widespread occurrence and high frequency of a process that we would have dismissed as science fiction until just a few years ago," says W. Ford Doolittle, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Microbial Genomics at Dalhousie University, who is not connected to the study. "This is stunning evidence for increased frequency of gene transfer."..."This parasite has implanted itself inside the cells of 70 percent of the world's invertebrates, coevolving with them. And now, we've found at least one species where the parasite's entire or nearly entire genome has been absorbed and integrated into the host's. The host's genes actually hold the coding information for a completely separate species."..."
April 24, 2007, Sciencedaily: 'Junk' DNA Now Looks Like Powerful Regulator, Scientists Find, backup Citat: "...Many of those snippets were located in gene-free chromosomal expanses once described by geneticists as "gene deserts." These sections are, in fact, so clogged with useful DNA bits – including the ones Bejerano and his colleagues describe – that they've been renamed "regulatory jungles."...transposons that duplicate themselves and hop around the genome. "We used to think they were mostly messing things up. Here is a case where they are actually useful," Bejerano said..."Now we've shown that transposons may be a major vehicle for evolutionary novelty," he said...."
University of California - San Francisco. (2018, June 21). Not junk: 'Jumping gene' is critical for early embryo: Gene that makes up a fifth of the human genome is not a parasite, but key to the first stages of embryonic development. ScienceDaily, backup Citat: "...Only about 1 percent of the human genome encodes proteins, and researchers have long debated what the other 99 percent is good for...For example, fully half of our DNA is made up of "transposable elements," or "transposons," virus-like genetic material that has the special ability of duplicating and reinserting itself in different locations in the genome, which has led researchers to dub them genetic parasites...Now UCSF scientists have revealed that, far from being a freeloader or parasite, the most common transposon, called LINE1, which accounts for 20 percent or more of the human genome, is actually necessary for embryos to develop past the two-cell stage...The team tried eliminating LINE1 from fertilized eggs and found that the embryos completely lost their ability to progress past the two-cell phase..."We now think these early embryos are playing with fire but in a very calculated way," Ramalho-Santos said. "This could be a very robust mechanism for regulating development."..."
14 June 2007, BBC News: Human genome further unravelled, backup Citat: "...it suggests genes, so called junk DNA and other elements, together weave an intricate control network...He said: "The genome looks like it is far more of a network of RNA transcripts that are all collaborating together. Some go off and make proteins; [and] quite a few, although we know they are there, we really do not have a good understanding of what they do. "This leads to a much more complex picture." The researchers now hope to scale up their efforts to look at the other 99% of the genome..."
University of Rochester (2007, August 31). One Species' Entire Genome Discovered Inside Another's. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 10, 2007, backup Citat: "..."This study establishes the widespread occurrence and high frequency of a process that we would have dismissed as science fiction until just a few years ago," says W. Ford Doolittle, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Microbial Genomics at Dalhousie University, who is not connected to the study. "This is stunning evidence for increased frequency of gene transfer."..."This parasite has implanted itself inside the cells of 70 percent of the world's invertebrates, coevolving with them. And now, we've found at least one species where the parasite's entire or nearly entire genome has been absorbed and integrated into the host's. The host's genes actually hold the coding information for a completely separate species."..."
12 May, 2004, BBC News: 'Junk' throws up precious secret, backup Citat: "..."It is very lucky that entire genomes were mapped, as this work is showing." He added: "I think other bits of 'junk' DNA will turn out not to be junk. I think this is the tip of the iceberg, and that there will be many more similar findings."..."
April 24, 2007, Sciencedaily: 'Junk' DNA Now Looks Like Powerful Regulator, Scientists Find, backup Citat: "...Many of those snippets were located in gene-free chromosomal expanses once described by geneticists as "gene deserts." These sections are, in fact, so clogged with useful DNA bits – including the ones Bejerano and his colleagues describe – that they've been renamed "regulatory jungles."...transposons that duplicate themselves and hop around the genome. "We used to think they were mostly messing things up. Here is a case where they are actually useful," Bejerano said..."Now we've shown that transposons may be a major vehicle for evolutionary novelty," he said...."
University of California - San Francisco. (2018, June 21). Not junk: 'Jumping gene' is critical for early embryo: Gene that makes up a fifth of the human genome is not a parasite, but key to the first stages of embryonic development. ScienceDaily, backup Citat: "...Only about 1 percent of the human genome encodes proteins, and researchers have long debated what the other 99 percent is good for...For example, fully half of our DNA is made up of "transposable elements," or "transposons," virus-like genetic material that has the special ability of duplicating and reinserting itself in different locations in the genome, which has led researchers to dub them genetic parasites...Now UCSF scientists have revealed that, far from being a freeloader or parasite, the most common transposon, called LINE1, which accounts for 20 percent or more of the human genome, is actually necessary for embryos to develop past the two-cell stage...The team tried eliminating LINE1 from fertilized eggs and found that the embryos completely lost their ability to progress past the two-cell phase..."We now think these early embryos are playing with fire but in a very calculated way," Ramalho-Santos said. "This could be a very robust mechanism for regulating development."..."
