Process of transposition in which the existing element is replicated and one of the copies is excised and integrated at a new target site. Also referred to as copy-and-paste transposition. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10540284 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1660177 GOC:bm ]
Synonyms: replicative transposition, DNA-mediated copy-and-paste transposition transpositional DNA genome replication