New Insights on Vertebrate Repetitive DNA

Dear Colleagues,

Repetitive DNA has attracted the interest of evolutionary biologists. It constitutes the major proportion of all nuclear DNA in most eukaryotic genomes. The significance of repetitive DNA in the genome is not completely understood, and it has been considered to have both structural and functional roles. The advent of next-generation sequencing technologies has strongly contributed to insights on the evolutionary meaning of repetitive DNA. However, many questions are open about the origin, evolutionary mode, and functions that repetitive sequences might have in the genome and how these elements are controlled and positively used by the host genome to gain evolutionary advantages.

In this Special Issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, we invite researchers from all over the world to share advances in our understanding of the role of the main types of repetitive DNA (transposable elements and satellite DNA) in vertebrate genomes.

Dr. Maria Assunta Biscotti
Dr. Marco Barucca
Dr. Federica Carducci
Guest Editors

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