They include DNA transposable elements, plasmids and bacteriophage elements. The total of all mobile genetic elements in a genome may be referred to as the mobilome. In this Review, Della Valle et al.

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Though American botanist Barbara McClintock conducted the research that led to her discovery of mobile genetic elements in the 1940s, it was not until decades later that scientists began to take ...