1. Preface

   • Pierre Capy
   • Claude Bazin
   • Thierry Langin

   Legacy Pages: 1 - 2

2. Ltr retrotransposons and the evolution of eukaryotic enhancers

   • John F. McDonald
   • Lilya V. Matyunina
   • Wolfgang J. Miller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 13

3. What makes Grande1 retrotransposon different?

   • José A. Martínez-Izquierdo
   • José García-Martínez
   • Carlos M. Vicient

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 28

4. About the origin of retroviruses and the co-evolution of the gypsy retrovirus with the Drosophila flamenco host gene

   • A. Pélisson
   • L. Teysset
   • A. Bucheton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 37

5. Structural analysis of Drosophila subobscura gypsy elements (gypsyDs)

   • T. M. Alberola
   • L. Bori
   • R. de Frutos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 48

6. Evolution of R1 and R2 in the rDNA units of the genus Drosophila

   • Thomas H. Eickbush
   • William D. Burke
   • Warren C. Lathe III

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 61

7. Do the integrases of LTR-retrotransposons and class II element transposases have a common ancestor?

   • Pierre Capy
   • Thierry Langin
   • Claude Bazin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 72

8. Evolutionary links between telomeres and transposable elements

   • M.L. Pardue
   • O.N. Danilevskaya
   • K. Lowenhaupt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 84

9. Constitutive heterochromatin and transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster

   • Patrizio Dimitri

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 93

10. P element regulation and X-chromosome subtelomeric heterochromatin in Drosophila melanogaster

    • Stéphane Ronsseray
    • Monique Lehmann
    • Dominique Anxolabéhère

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 107

11. Quasispecies in retrotransposons: a role for sequence variability in Tnt1 evolution

    • Josep M. Casacuberta
    • Samantha Vernhettes
    • Marie-Angèle Grandbastien

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 117

12. Genetic and molecular investigations on the endogenous mobile elements of non-drosophilid fruitflies

    • C. Torti
    • L.M. Gomulski
    • G. Gasperi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 129

13. Genomic distribution of the retrovirus-like element ZAM in Drosophila

    • E. Baldrich
    • P. Dimitri
    • C. Vaury

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 140

14. Cm-gag, a transposable-like element reiterated in the genome of Culex pipiens mosquitoes, contains only a gag gene

    • N. Bensaadi-Merchermek
    • C. Cagnon
    • C. Mouchès

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 148

15. Evidence for a host role in regulating the activity of transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster: the case of the persistent instability of Bari 1 elements in Charolles stock

    • Nikolaj Junakovic
    • Carmen Di Franco
    • Alessandro Terrinoni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 154

16. Plant S1 SINEs as a model to study retroposition

    • N. Gilbert
    • P. Arnaud
    • J.M. Deragon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 160

17. Maintenance of transposable element copy number in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans

    • Christian Biémont
    • Cristina Vieira
    • Jean-Pierre Carante

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 166

18. Accumulation of transposable elements in laboratory lines of Drosophila melanogaster

    • Sergey V. Nuzhdin
    • Elena G. Pasyukova
    • Trudy F.C. Mackay

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 175

19. Regulation of the transposable element mariner

    • Daniel L. Hartl
    • Allan R. Lohe
    • Elena R. Lozovskaya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 184

20. The evolution of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons in eukaryote genomes

    • Andrew J. Flavell
    • Stephen R. Pearce
    • Amar Kumar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 195

21. The chromosomal distributions of Ty1-copia group retrotransposable elements in higher plants and their implications for genome evolution

    • J.S. (Pat) Heslop-Harrison
    • Andrea Brandes
    • Gill E. Harrison

    OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 204

22. The Ty1-copia group of retrotransposons in plants: genomic organisation, evolution, and use as molecular markers

    • Amar Kumar
    • Stephen R. Pearce
    • Andrew J. Flavell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 217

23. Bare-1 insertion site preferences and evolutionary conservation of RNA and cDNA processing sites

    • Annu Suoniemi
    • Dagmar Schmidt
    • Alan H. Schulman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 230

24. Bare-Id, a representative of a family of BARE-like elements of the barley genome

    • A.B. Shcherban'
    • A.V. Vershinin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 240

25. The expression of the tobacco Tnt1 retrotransposon is linked to plant defense responses

    • Marie-Angèle Grandbastien
    • Héène Lucas
    • Josep M. Casacuberta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 252

26. Fungal transposable elements and genome evolution

    • M.J. Daboussi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 260

27. Molecular domestication of mobile elements

    • Wolfgang J. Miller
    • John F. McDonald
    • Wilhelm Pinsker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 270

28. Genomic signatures: tracing the origin of retroelements at the nucleotide level

    • Christophe Terzian
    • Ivan Laprevotte
    • Alain Hénaut

    OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 279

29. Population genetics models of transposable elements

    • John F.Y. Brookfield
    • Richard M. Badge

    OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 294

30. A simulation of P element horizontal transfer in Drosophila

    • Hadi Quesneville
    • Dominique Anxolabéhère

    OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 307