On January 23, Prof. Song Chengyi and his team from our College of Animal Science and Technology published a research paper “Passer, a highly active transposon from a fish genome, as a potential new robust genetic manipulation tool” in Nucleic Acids Research (IF>19).

Based on the systematic analyses of the evolution and structure of PS members, the research successfully obtained a highly active DNA transposon element from the genome of Gasterosteus aculeatus and systematically revealed its characteristics. PS transposons were another DNA transposons with excellent capacity found and identified by the research group after ZB transposons. Furthermore, PS transposons have promising prospects for application in the research fields of human gene therapy, transgenics, functional genomics, etc.