Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals
A. Marino, G. Debaecker, A.-S. Fiston-Lavier, A. Haudry, B. Nabholz
The paper examines the relationship between effective population size and genome size variation in animals, finding no evidence that genetic drift drives TE accumulation across species.
bioRxiv · Feb 26, 2024Evolutionary Biology