text: Another variety of transposons, discovered in 2001, which can also potentially capture host DNA. Helitrons are thought to replicate via a "rolling circle", in which transposase links the helitron to two distinct regions of the genome at once, using a helicase, ligase, and nuclease in the process to unravel the strands involved, replicate the helitron, and subsequently ligate the replicated material into the new site. During this process, it is thought that the helitrons often encode for the surrounding DNA and integrate this into their own material. Non-autuonomous helitrons may lack a transposase, a helicase, a ligase, or a nuclease. All are thought to be necessary for this complex process of transposition.