OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mobile DNA is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Subcellular location of L1 retrotransposon-encoded ORF1p, reverse transcription products, and DNA sensors in lupus granulocytes	139
Recurrent co-domestication of PIF/Harbinger transposable element proteins in insects	34
Generalized nuclear localization of retroelement transcripts	32
Look4LTRs: a Long terminal repeat retrotransposon detection tool capable of cross species studies and discovering recently nested repeats	28
Long-read sequencing improves the genetic diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa by identifying an Alu retrotransposon insertion in the EYS gene	20
An intronic LINE-1 regulates IFNAR1 expression in human immune cells	20
SCIFER: approach for analysis of LINE-1 mRNA expression in single cells at a single locus resolution	20
Multiple horizontal transfer events of a DNA transposon into turtles, fishes, and a frog	19
SINE-derived satellites in scaled reptiles	17
Association of a 7.9 kb Endogenous Retrovirus Insertion in Intron 1 of CD36 with Obesity and Fat Measurements in Sheep	17
Acute testicular hyperthermia leads to rapid loss of global piRNA and a concurrent increase in LINE1 activity within heat sensitive male germ cells	16
THE1B may have no role in human pregnancy due to ZNF430-mediated silencing	16
Plants acquired mitochondrial linear plasmids horizontally from fungi likely during the conquest of land	16
Analysis of pericentromere composition and structure elucidated the history of the Hieracium alpinum L. genome, revealing waves of transposable elements insertions	15
Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse	14
Mobile group I introns at nuclear rDNA position L2066 harbor sense and antisense homing endonuclease genes intervened by spliceosomal introns	14
Association of hyperactivated transposon expression with exacerbated immune activation in systemic lupus erythematosus	13
Binding of NF-Y to transposable elements in mouse and human cells	11
Pan cancer characterization of genes whose expression has been associated with LINE-1 antisense promoter activity	11
Double-stranded DNA viruses may serve as vectors for horizontal transfer of intron-generating transposons	10
Impact of a horizontally transferred Helitron family on genome evolution in Xenopus laevis	9
A plan or pandemonium? The conundrum of retrotransposon activation in cancer	9
Massive proliferation of retrotransposons contributes to genome size expansion in species of the Pseudocercospora genus	9
Internal initiation of reverse transcription in a Penelope-like retrotransposon	9
RepEnTools: an automated repeat enrichment analysis package for ChIP-seq data reveals hUHRF1 Tandem-Tudor domain enrichment in young repeats	9

Transposable element dynamics and regulatory role in sika deer (Cervus nippon) antler development	9
FoTeRs: a novel family of telomere-associated retrotransposons in Fusarium oxysporum	9
Multiple horizontal transfers of a Helitron transposon associated with a parasitoid wasp	8
Co-option of an endogenous retrovirus (LTR7-HERVH) in early human embryogenesis: becoming useful and going unnoticed	7
FishPi: a bioinformatic prediction tool to link piRNA and transposable elements	7
Exploration of the regulatory relationship between KRAB-Zfp clusters and their target transposable elements via a gene editing strategy at the cluster specific linker-associated sequences by CRISPR-Ca	7
Heat-induced transcriptional activation of LTR retrotransposons in the regenerative flatworm Macrostomum lignano	7
Host range of strand-biased circularizing integrative elements: a new class of mobile DNA elements nesting in Gammaproteobacteria	6
Correction: A plan or pandemonium? The conundrum of retrotransposon activation in cancer	6
A unique eukaryotic lineage of composite-like DNA transposons encoding a DDD/E transposase and a His-Me finger homing endonuclease	6
HERV-K HML-2 transcriptional profiling and splicing pattern unveiled by direct single-molecule long-read RNA sequencing	6
Retand LTR-retrotransposons in plants: a long way from pol to 3’LTR	6