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Alexander Stuart

@alex-stuart.bsky.social

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PhD candidate | Adelaide University 🇦🇺| Evolutionary genetics | Transposable elements | Genome evolution

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@alex-stuart.bsky.social, Du, @nozhathassan.bsky.social & Adelson establish an updated evolutionary framework for CR1-group elements and confirm their widespread, long-standing presence across vertebrates. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag155 #societyjournal #TEsky #genome #evolution

GBE | Ancient Persistence and Newfound Diversity of CR1-Group Retrotransposons Across Vertebrates

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Clément Goubert @clementgoubert.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Major development in the #Transposon world! Repbase is joining the Dfam project and becomes open-access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Unifying Repbase and Dfam: a new open foundation for transposable element research - Mobile DNA

Repbase and Dfam, the two foundational resources for transposable element annotation, are being unified into a single, fully open access framework, with Repbase released under CC-0 and its core curati...

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Nozhat @nozhathassan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Congratulations to the authors (and my friends), @alex-stuart.bsky.social and Chandler on their paper on CR1 retrotransposons across vertebrates! And thanks for letting me tag along! #TEsky academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

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Ancient persistence and newfound diversity of CR1-group retrotransposons across vertebrates

Abstract. Retrotransposons are mobile, repetitive DNA sequences that are ubiquitous across eukaryotes and widely recognised as key drivers of both gene and

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Bonar et al. reveal that ∼66% of the common octopus genome is made up of repeats. The authors' re-annotation of the genome indicates four TW expansions at 18, 25, 33, and 56 MYA, and identifies a landscape of TE hot- and cold spots. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag137 #genome #evolution

GBE | Biological Implications of a Detailed Repeat Annotation in Octopus vulgaris

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Nozhat @nozhathassan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

New work on CR1 retrotransposons by my lab friends Alex and Chandler! Happy to have helped out along the way

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