text: Very little is known about the initiation of epigenetic silencing of transposable elements, and aside from the rare exception to this rule, as in the gene Muk, present as an initiator of regulatory epigenetic modification in maize, there are many other unclear aspects of how transposons are regulated in plant genomes. Might they be a first step in evolution that we never knew about? [1] Might they be, simply, a kink in the chain of genetic coding, one that will eventually be worked out? Again, given the lack of information it is hard to say. Future research into this field will see the changing of our conceptions of transposons and their role in eukaryote development, one way or another.