transposable

基本解释

In particular, they tracked the positions of transposable elements.
尤其是，他们跟踪了转位因子的位置。
These results indicated that degradative and transposable genes of the naphthalene-degrading bacteria are highly conserved.
这些结果表明，萘降解细菌的降解基因和转座基因具有高度的保守性。
The scientists based this ancestral census on a reading of modern human genomes. In particular, they tracked the positions of transposable elements.
科学家们是解读现代人类基因组后得出这个远古数据的，他们还特别追踪了转位因子的位置。

When the going gets tough for agricultural plants, for instance, the number of transposable elements seems to decline.
ECONOMIST: Truly selfish genes
But Dr Nuzhdin reckons that it may hold a clue to the proliferation of different transposable elements in other organisms.
ECONOMIST: Truly selfish genes
Dr Nuzhdin thinks that the main reason why copia does not proliferate like this in wild populations is that natural selection keeps these transposable elements in check.
ECONOMIST: Truly selfish genes