transposon

See also: transposón

English

Etymology

transpose +‎ -on.

Noun

transposon (plural transposons)

  1. (genetics) A segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to the genome of another species.
    Synonyms: jumping gene, transposable element, TE
    • 2002, Ahmet Ipek, Introduction of an Ac/Ds Based Two-element Transposon Tagging System and Trans-activation of Ds in Carrot (Daucus Carota L.), University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 44,
      Transposon tagging is a powerful technique to identify and clone genes. The successful application of transposon tagging requires previous identification and cloning of a transposon in the species under consideration.
    • 2003, Karl J. Clark, The Development of Sleeping Beauty Gene-trap Transposons for Insertional Mutagenesis of Vertebrates, University of Minnesota, page 7:
      An alternative approach to the use of retroviruses was to use a DNA transposon to integrate DNA into zebrafish chromosomes.
    • 2018 March 26, Nicola Davis, “The human microbiome: why our microbes could be key to our health”, in The Guardian:
      Our genome also contains stretches of genetic material called transposons that, at least in some cases, are thought to have been introduced long ago by viruses.

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