How do jumping genes cause disease, drive evolution?

Researchers have developed new techniques to track the mobilization of jumping genes. They found that during a particular period of egg development, a group of jumping-genes called retrotransposons hijacks special cells called nurse cells that nurture the developing eggs. These jumping genes use nurse cells to produce invasive material (copies of themselves called virus-like particles) that move into a nearby egg and then mobilize into the egg’s DNA driving evolution, and causing disease.
How do jumping genes cause disease, drive evolution?
How do jumping genes cause disease, drive evolution?
pest-news
{$excerpt:n}

Home

Source: Original Post Link pest-news