General Information

1. Overview

2. IS History

3. What Is an Insertion Sequence (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

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

24a. The Casposases-fix