1 So Many Repeats and So Little Time: How to Classify
Transposable Elements ........................................ 1
Thomas Wicker
2 Transposable Element Annotation in Completely Sequenced
Eukaryote Genomes ........................................... 17
Timothee Flutre, Emmanuelle Permal, and Hadi Quesneville
3 Using Nextgen Sequencing to Investigate Genome Size
Variation and Transposable Element Content .................. 41
Concepcion Muñoz-Diez, Clémentine Vitte, Jeffrey Ross-
Ibarra, Brandon S. Gaut, and Maud I. Tenaillon
4 Genome-Wide Analysis of Transposition Using Next
Generation Sequencing Technologies .......................... 59
Moaine Elbaidouri and Olivier Panaud
5 Hitching a Ride: Nonautonomous Retrotransposons and
Parasitism as a Lifestyle ................................... 71
Alan H. Schulman
6 Plant Endogenous Retroviruses? A Case of Mysterious ORFs .... 89
Howard M. Laten and Garen D. Gaston
7 MITEs, Miniature Elements with a Major Role in Plant
Genome Evolution ........................................... 113
Helene Guermonprez, Elizabeth Hénaff, Marta Cifuentes,
and Josep M. Casacuberta
8 Glue for Jumping Elements: Epigenetic Means for
Controlling Transposable Elements in Plants ................ 125
Thierry Pélissier and Olivier Mathieu
9 Responses of Transposable Elements to Polyploidy ........... 147
Christian Parisod and Natacha Senerchia
10 Noise or Symphony: Comparative Evolutionary Analysis
of Sugarcane Transposable Elements with Other Grasses ...... 169
Nathalia de Setta, Cushla J. Metcalfe, Guilherme
M.Q. Cruz, Edgar A. Ochoa, and Marie-Anne Van Sluys
11 Helitron Proliferation and Gene-Fragment Capture ........... 193
Yubin Li and Hugo K. Dooner
12 Transposable Element Exaptation in Plants .................. 219
Douglas R. Hoen and Thomas E. Bureau
13 SINE Exaptation as Cellular Regulators Occurred
Numerous Times During Eukaryote Evolution .................. 253
Jean-Marc Deragon
14 LTR Retrotransposons as Controlling Elements of Genome
Response to Stress? ........................................ 273
Quynh Trang Bui and Marie-Angele Grandbastien
15 Rider Transposon Insertion and Phenotypic Change in
Tomato ..................................................... 297
Ning Jiang, Sofia Visa, Shan Wu, and Esther van der Knaap
16 Retrotransposons and the Eternal Leaves .................... 313
Antonella Furini
Index ......................................................... 325
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