Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...

As A factor of unknown location (at least when McClintock was conducting her research) that impacts the expression of Ds. Barbara McClintock's discovery of transposable elements in Zea mays ...

No one believed Barbara McClintock in 1951 when she first described DNA that "jumped" from site to site within maize chromosomes, altering the expression of genes near the sites of integration. In due ...