Mobile DNA celebrates Transposon Day every June 16th, to commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable elements research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992). This day was designated to honor her legacy and draw attention to the important research that has changed the way researchers think about evolution, disease, and genomics. Please check out our special page for a guest blog, a new quiz, a selection of our journal's best articles from the last 12 months, and much more!
Celebrate Transposon Day 2021 with Mobile DNA!
Featured article: Dfam updated!
Dfam is an open access database of repetitive DNA families, sequence models, and genome annotations. This expansion demonstrates the utility of many of Dfam’s new features and provides insight into the long term challenges ahead for improving de novo generated transposable element datasets. Read it here!
Featured series: Transposable Elements in Model Organisms
We are proud to present a new series of review papers focused on transposable elements (TE) in model organisms. This series will deliver a comprehensive and even coverage of the diversity of TEs populating the model species; outstanding questions and future directions with the study of TEs in species; and much more!
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Population analysis of retrotransposons in giraffe genomes supports RTE decline and widespread LINE1 activity in Giraffidae
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A comparative analysis of L1 retrotransposition activities in human genomes suggests an ongoing increase in L1 number despite an evolutionary trend towards lower activity
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Chromosomal integration of Tn5253 occurs downstream of a conserved 11-bp sequence of the rbgA gene in Streptococcus pneumoniae and in all the other known hosts of this integrative conjugative element (ICE)
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Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses of transposable elements in polychaetous annelids highlight LTR retrotransposon diversity and evolution
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Non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons: mechanisms, recent developments, and unanswered questions
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The expanding universe of transposon technologies for gene and cell engineering
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Mobile DNA and evolution in the 21st century
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Mobilizing diversity: transposable element insertions in genetic variation and disease
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Transposable element detection from whole genome sequence data
Editors' Picks
Highlights from recent literature on mobile elements, selected by the Editors-in-Chief.
Bracoviruses recruit host integrases for their integration into caterpillar's genome [PLoS Genet. 2021] PubMed
Regulation of retrotransposition in Arabidopsis [Biochem Soc Trans. 2021] PubMed
Circular RNA repertoires are associated with evolutionarily young transposable elements [Elife. 2021) PubMed
Characterization of full-length LINE-1 insertions in 154 genomes [Genomics. 2021] PubMed
piRNA-independent transposon silencing by the Drosophila THO complex [Dev Cell. 2021] PubMed
Aims and scope
Mobile DNA is an online, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes articles providing novel insights into the function, biological impact, and evolution of transposable elements in any organism. Topics related to transposable elements may include genetic or epigenetic variation, genome rearrangements, mechanisms, patterns and processes of transposition, and the role of mobile elements in host genome evolution.
Mobile DNA aims to understand:- mechanisms of intra- and intergenomic mobility via genetic, comparative genomic, biochemical and structural approaches
- regulation of DNA rearrangements by the environment and during development
- how DNA restructuring reshapes cellular function and organism evolution
- the role of transposable elements in disease in a variety of organisms
- host—element interaction and genetic/epigenetic regulatory networks
Mobile DNA reflects the need for a journal that spans all aspects of specialized recombination, from structure and mechanism to evolutionary impact. In addition, the journal will consider articles on the utility of mobile genetic elements in biotechnological methods and protocols, and related biocomputational tools.
Editors-in-Chief
Irina Arkhipova, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole
Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, USA
Kathleen Burns, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, USA
Pascale Lesage, INSERM, France
In 2019, we welcomed our new Associate Editors:
Orsolya Barabas, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
Gael Cristofari, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Adam Ewing, Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland, Australia
Clément Gilbert, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, France
Molly G Hammell, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Damon R Lisch, Purdue University, USA
Joe Peters, Cornell University, USA
Phoebe Rice, The University of Chicago, USA
Links to Useful TE Community Resources
Transposable elements labs directory
Women in TEs (maintained by Cedric Feschotte)
Job vacancies
Transposons Worldwide SLACK Page (Managed by Rebecca Berrens)
Mobile DNA Tools Collection
TE digest (Managed by Alexander Suh)
TE Hub
Upcoming meetings
Mobile DNA is proud to share information about the following conferences/meetings which will be of interest to our readership:
Keystone Symposia's "Transposable Elements at the Crossroads of Evolution, Health and Disease", 27 Feb - 3 Mar 2022
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Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
43 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
37 days to first decision for all manuscripts
116 days from submission to acceptance
21 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
4.060 - 2-year Impact Factor
5.820 - 5-year Impact Factor
0.887 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
2.047 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
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426 Altmetric Mentions