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. 2017 Dec 6;6(4):42. doi: 10.3390/biology6040042

Table 9.

Selected Reports of Exon Rearrangements and Retroposition by Mobile DNA element Activity.

Rearrangements Taxa
Group II intron retrotransposition and exon shuffling Yeast
Chimeric LINE-mediated retrogene formation Rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea
DNA “splicing” by transposase-related excision functions Ciliated protists
Exon shuffling by DNA transposons (Pack-MULE, Ac/Ds, CACTA, Helitron) Plants, including beans and maize
LINE-mediated duplications Dicots
Retrotransposon-mediated exon shuffling Maize, Medicago sativa
Exon shuffling by DNA transposons (Helitron, FB transposon) Lepidoptera, Drosophila
Retrotransduction by LINEs and SINEs Drosophila
Exon shuffling by retrotransposition Mammals
Retrotransposon exon shuffling Primates
TRIM5-Cyclophilin A (TRIMCyp) fusion by retrotransposition Tree shrews and owl monkeys
Exon shuffling by retrotransposition Humans
L1/LINE mediated retrotransduction Humans
Alu or SVA SINE-mediated retrotransduction Humans
Chimeric “retrogenes”, by LINE-mediated template switches at the RNA level Humans

A more detailed and fully referenced version of this table is available as Supplementary Table S9.