Table of Content
Preface: Thoughts on Doing Science
1. Introduction to Mobile DNA
2. Varieties of Mobile DNA
3. DNA Transposons
4. Mobile DNA of Model Organisms
5. Exceptional Scientists Working on Mobile DNA in Lower Organisms
6. Role of Bioinformatics in Genome Analysis
7. The Prologue
8. "Welcome to the Wonderful World of LINEs";
9. An Experimental Breakthrough
10. Reverse Transcriptase to the Rescue
11. A Quirk of L1 Elements-;A Lousy 3’ End Is Important for Genome Evolution
12. A Tour de Force from Tom Eickbush
13. "I don’t believe all those colonies represent retrotransposition events.";
14. L1 Encodes an Endonuclease
15. The Jocks
16. The Mayor and the Frenchman
17. Ostertag’s Coups
18. The Independent Canadian
19. The Musician Scientist
20. Young Ladies in the Back Bay
21. The Brilliant Young Lady from China
22. Hiroki’s Big Surprises
23. A Young Man with a Purpose
24. Other Mobile DNA in Mammalian Genomes
25. Effects of Retrotransposons on Mammalian Genomes
26. Host Factors Involved in L1 Retrotransposition
27. Why Mobile DNA?
28. The Future of Mobile DNA Research
29. Predictions for Mobile DNA
References
Glossary
Index