General

Craig, N.L., R. Craigie, M. Gellert, and A.M. Lambowitz. 2002. Mobile DNA II. Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology.

Haber, J.E. 2014. Genome Stability: DNA Repair and Recombination. New York: Garland Science. See Chapter 11 for a complete discussion of site-specific recombination.

Mechanisms of Site-Specific Recombination

Biswas, T., H. Aihara, M. Radman-Livaja, D. Filman, A. Landy, and T. Ellenberger. 2005. A structural basis for allosteric control of DNA recombination by λ integrase. Nature 435:1059–1066.

Campbell, A. 2007. Phage integration and chromosome structure: A personal history. Annu. Rev. Genet. 41:1–11.

Capecchi, M. 1994. Targeted gene replacement. Sci. Am. 270(3):52–59.

Chen, Y., and P.A. Rice. 2003. New insight into site-specific recombination from Flp recombinase-DNA structures. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 32:135–159.

Lichtman, J.W., J. Livet, and J.R. Sanes. 2008. A technicolour approach to the connectome. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 9:417–422.

Sauer, B. 2002. Cre/lox: One more step in the taming of the genome. Endocrine 19:221–227.

Mechanisms of Transposition

Beauregard, A., M.J. Curcio, and M. Belfort. 2008. The take and give among retrotransposable elements and their hosts. Annu. Rev. Genet. 42:587–617.

Bordenstein, S.R., and W.S. Reznikoff. 2005. Mobile DNA in obligate intracellular bacteria. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 3:688–699.

Ivics, Z., P.B. Hackett, R.H.A. Plasterk, and Z. Izsvák. 1997. Molecular reconstruction of Sleeping Beauty, a Tc1-like transposon from fish, and its transposition in human cells. Cell 91:501–510.

Peters, J.E., and N.L. Craig. 2001. Tn7: Smarter than we thought. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 5:1161–1170.

Plasterk, R.H.A., Z. Izsvák, and Z. Ivics. 1999. Resident aliens: The Tc1/mariner superfamily of transposable elements. Trends Genet. 15:326–332.

Reznikoff, W.S. 2008. Transposon Tn5. Annu. Rev. Genet. 42:269–286.

Shapiro, J.A. 1979. Molecular model for the transposition and replication of bacteriophage Mu and other transposable elements. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76:1933–1937.

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The Evolutionary Interplay of Transposons and Their Hosts

Burns, K.H., and J.D. Boeke. 2012. Human transposon tectonics. Cell 149:740–752.

Feschotte, C., and E.J. Pritham. 2007. DNA transposons and the evolution of eukaryotic genomes. Annu. Rev. Genet. 41:331–368.

Gray, Y.H.M. 2000. It takes two transposons to tango. Trends Genet. 16:461–468.

Kapitonov, V.V., and J. Jurka. 2005. RAG1 core and V(D)J recombination signal sequences were derived from Transib transposons. PLoS Biol. 3:998–1011.

Koonin, E.V., and V.V. Dolja. 2014. Virus world as an evolutionary network of viruses and capsidless selfish elements. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 78:278–303.

Lisch, D. 2012. How important are transposons for plant evolution? Nat. Rev. Genet. 14:49–61.

Zlotorynski, E. 2014. RNA interference: MicroRNAs suppress transposons. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell. Biol. 15:298–299.

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