diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5141924..f224f8c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: atena
 Type: Package
 Title: Analysis of Transposable Elements
-Version: 1.9.6
+Version: 1.9.7
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Beatriz", "Calvo-Serra", email="beatriz.calvo@upf.edu",
            role=c("aut", "cre")),
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Imports:
     stats,
     Matrix,
     BiocGenerics,
+    MatrixGenerics,
     BiocParallel,
     S4Vectors,
     IRanges,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index ba44daf..ba9e847 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ importFrom(Matrix,sparseMatrix)
 importFrom(Matrix,summary)
 importFrom(Matrix,t)
 importFrom(Matrix,which)
+importFrom(MatrixGenerics,rowRanges)
 importFrom(Rsamtools,"asMates<-")
 importFrom(Rsamtools,"yieldSize<-")
 importFrom(Rsamtools,BamFileList)
diff --git a/R/annotations.R b/R/annotations.R
index c015a5c..d709453 100644
--- a/R/annotations.R
+++ b/R/annotations.R
@@ -298,10 +298,13 @@ OneCodeToFindThemAll <- function(gr, dictionary=NULL, fuzzy = FALSE,
 
 #' Getter functions of TE classes from parsed RepeatMasker annotations.
 #'
-#' @param annot A \link[GenomicRanges:GRangesList-class]{GRangesList} object
-#'              obtained from parsing RepeatMasker annotations with
-#'              \code{OneCodeToFindThemAll()} or \code{rmskatenaparser()}
-#'              function.
+#' @param annot A [`GRanges`] or [`GRangesList`] object obtained with the
+#'              function `annotaTES()`, using either [`OneCodeToFindThemAll`]
+#'              or [`rmskatenaparser`] as RepeatMasker parser functions.
+#'              Alternatively, if `annot` is a [`QuantifyParam`] or a
+#'              [`SummarizedExperiment`] object produced by the `qtex()`
+#'              function, this function will attempt to extract the
+#'              corresponding annotations from inside those objects.
 #' 
 #' @param relLength (Default 0.9) Numeric value that can take values between 0
 #'                  to 1. Sets the minimum relative length required for
@@ -365,6 +368,8 @@ OneCodeToFindThemAll <- function(gr, dictionary=NULL, fuzzy = FALSE,
 getLTRs <- function(annot, relLength=0.9, fullLength=TRUE, partial=FALSE,
                     soloLTR=FALSE, otherLTR=FALSE, returnMask=FALSE) {
     
+    annot <- .fetchAnnotationsFromObject(annot)
+
     cnames <- c("Status", "RelLength", "Class")
     mask <- cnames %in% colnames(mcols(annot))
     if (any(!mask))
@@ -409,6 +414,9 @@ getLTRs <- function(annot, relLength=0.9, fullLength=TRUE, partial=FALSE,
 #' @importFrom GenomicRanges mcols
 #' @export
 getLINEs <- function(annot, relLength=0.9, returnMask=FALSE) {
+
+    annot <- .fetchAnnotationsFromObject(annot)
+
     cnames <- c("RelLength", "Class")
     mask <- cnames %in% colnames(mcols(annot))
     if (any(!mask))
@@ -446,6 +454,9 @@ getLINEs <- function(annot, relLength=0.9, returnMask=FALSE) {
 #' @importFrom GenomicRanges mcols
 #' @export
 getSINEs <- function(annot, relLength=0.9, returnMask=FALSE) {
+
+    annot <- .fetchAnnotationsFromObject(annot)
+
     cnames <- c("RelLength", "Class")
     mask <- cnames %in% colnames(mcols(annot))
     if (any(!mask))
@@ -483,6 +494,9 @@ getSINEs <- function(annot, relLength=0.9, returnMask=FALSE) {
 #' @importFrom GenomicRanges mcols
 #' @export
 getDNAtransposons <- function(annot, relLength=0.9, returnMask=FALSE) {
+
+    annot <- .fetchAnnotationsFromObject(annot)
+
     cnames <- c("RelLength", "Class")
     mask <- cnames %in% colnames(mcols(annot))
     if (any(!mask))
@@ -511,6 +525,20 @@ getDNAtransposons <- function(annot, relLength=0.9, returnMask=FALSE) {
     res
 }
 
+#' @importFrom MatrixGenerics rowRanges
+.fetchAnnotationsFromObject <- function(object) {
+    annot <- object
+
+    if (is(object, "QuantifyParam"))
+        annot <- features(object)
+    else if (is(object, "SummarizedExperiment"))
+        annot <- rowRanges(object)
+    else if (!is(object, "GRangesList") && !is(object, "GRanges"))
+        stop(paste("input annotations should be either a 'GenomicRanges',",
+                   "'QuantifyParam' or a 'SummarizedExperiment' object."))
+    annot
+}
+
 #' @importFrom stats setNames
 .builDictionary <- function(gr, fuzzy=FALSE) {
   annltr <- gr[gr$repClass=="LTR"]
diff --git a/man/annotaTEsGetters.Rd b/man/annotaTEsGetters.Rd
index ec397c7..edd36a8 100644
--- a/man/annotaTEsGetters.Rd
+++ b/man/annotaTEsGetters.Rd
@@ -25,10 +25,13 @@ getSINEs(annot, relLength = 0.9, returnMask = FALSE)
 getDNAtransposons(annot, relLength = 0.9, returnMask = FALSE)
 }
 \arguments{
-\item{annot}{A \link[GenomicRanges:GRangesList-class]{GRangesList} object
-obtained from parsing RepeatMasker annotations with
-\code{OneCodeToFindThemAll()} or \code{rmskatenaparser()}
-function.}
+\item{annot}{A [`GRanges`] or [`GRangesList`] object obtained with the
+function `annotaTES()`, using either [`OneCodeToFindThemAll`]
+or [`rmskatenaparser`] as RepeatMasker parser functions.
+Alternatively, if `annot` is a [`QuantifyParam`] or a
+[`SummarizedExperiment`] object produced by the `qtex()`
+function, this function will attempt to extract the
+corresponding annotations from inside those objects.}
 
 \item{relLength}{(Default 0.9) Numeric value that can take values between 0
 to 1. Sets the minimum relative length required for