Purifying selection and drift, not life history or RNAi, determine transposable element evolution
Amir Szitenberg, Soyeon Cha, Charles H Opperman, David M Bird, Mark Blaxter, David H Lunt
This study shows purifying selection, not life history or RNAi, drives transposable element evolution across nematode genomes over 500 million years.
bioRxiv · Dec 20, 2015Evolutionary Biology