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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Recurrent co-domestication of PIF/Harbinger transposable element proteins in insects	91
Subcellular location of L1 retrotransposon-encoded ORF1p, reverse transcription products, and DNA sensors in lupus granulocytes	73
Whole-genome analysis reveals the contribution of non-coding de novo transposon insertions to autism spectrum disorder	36
Generalized nuclear localization of retroelement transcripts	27
Look4LTRs: a Long terminal repeat retrotransposon detection tool capable of cross species studies and discovering recently nested repeats	23
Long-read sequencing improves the genetic diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa by identifying an Alu retrotransposon insertion in the EYS gene	22
An intronic LINE-1 regulates IFNAR1 expression in human immune cells	21
SCIFER: approach for analysis of LINE-1 mRNA expression in single cells at a single locus resolution	19
Multiple horizontal transfer events of a DNA transposon into turtles, fishes, and a frog	14
Correction: A beginner’s guide to manual curation of transposable elements	14
SINE-derived satellites in scaled reptiles	13
Characterization of transposable elements within the Bemisia tabaci species complex	12
Plants acquired mitochondrial linear plasmids horizontally from fungi likely during the conquest of land	11
Association of a 7.9 kb Endogenous Retrovirus Insertion in Intron 1 of CD36 with Obesity and Fat Measurements in Sheep	11
THE1B may have no role in human pregnancy due to ZNF430-mediated silencing	11
Analysis of pericentromere composition and structure elucidated the history of the Hieracium alpinum L. genome, revealing waves of transposable elements insertions	10
A comparative analysis of L1 retrotransposition activities in human genomes suggests an ongoing increase in L1 number despite an evolutionary trend towards lower activity	10
Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse	10
Chromosomal integration of Tn5253 occurs downstream of a conserved 11-bp sequence of the rbgA gene in Streptococcus pneumoniae and in all the other known hosts of this integrative conjugative element	10
Mobile group I introns at nuclear rDNA position L2066 harbor sense and antisense homing endonuclease genes intervened by spliceosomal introns	8
Association of hyperactivated transposon expression with exacerbated immune activation in systemic lupus erythematosus	8
Correction: Characterization of transposable elements within the Bemisia tabaci species complex	8
TE Density: a tool to investigate the biology of transposable elements	7
RepEnTools: an automated repeat enrichment analysis package for ChIP-seq data reveals hUHRF1 Tandem-Tudor domain enrichment in young repeats	7
Pan cancer characterization of genes whose expression has been associated with LINE-1 antisense promoter activity	7

Double-stranded DNA viruses may serve as vectors for horizontal transfer of intron-generating transposons	7
Impact of a horizontally transferred Helitron family on genome evolution in Xenopus laevis	7
Binding of NF-Y to transposable elements in mouse and human cells	7
Internal initiation of reverse transcription in a Penelope-like retrotransposon	7
RNA sensor MDA5 suppresses LINE-1 retrotransposition by regulating the promoter activity of LINE-1 5′-UTR	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	6
The fifth Japanese meeting on biological function and evolution through interactions between hosts and transposable elements	6
Co-option of an endogenous retrovirus (LTR7-HERVH) in early human embryogenesis: becoming useful and going unnoticed	6
Multiple horizontal transfers of a Helitron transposon associated with a parasitoid wasp	6
Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses of transposable elements in polychaetous annelids highlight LTR retrotransposon diversity and evolution	6
FishPi: a bioinformatic prediction tool to link piRNA and transposable elements	6
Retand LTR-retrotransposons in plants: a long way from pol to 3’LTR	6