New data suggest 'jumping genes' play a significant role in gene regulatory networks

Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 10:56 in Biology & Nature

Research performed in the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering (CBSE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that mobile repetitive elements--also known as transposons or "jumping genes"--do indeed affect the evolution of gene regulatory networks.

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