General Information

1. Overview 2. Insertion Sequence History 3. What Is an IS? 4. ISfinder and the Growing Number of IS 5. IS Identification 6. IS Distribution 7. Major Groups are Defined by the Type of Transposase They Use 8. Fuzzy Borders 9. tIS - IS and relatives with passenger genes 10. IS derivatives of Tn3 family transposons 11. IS related to Integrative Conjugative Elements (ICEs) 12. IS91 and ISCR families 13. Non-autonomous IS derivatives 14. Relationship Between IS and Eukaryotic TE 15. Impact of IS on Genome Evolution - The Importance of Time Scale 16. Target Choice 17. Influence of transposition mechanisms on genome impact 18. IS and Gene Expression 19. IS Organization 20. Control of transposition activity 21. Transposase expression and activity 22. ClpX, ClpP, and Lon 23. Reaction mechanisms 24. The Casposases