New environment, new invaders - repeated horizontal transfer of LINEs to sea snakes
J. D. Galbraith, A. J. Luddington, A. Suh, K. L. Sanders, D. L. Adelson
The paper identifies repeated horizontal transfer of LINE retrotransposons in marine sea snakes, suggesting marine environments facilitate transposon transfer and genomic novelty.
bioRxiv · Feb 27, 2020Evolutionary Biology