Not so selfish: transposable elements fuel adaptation to climate change
Evgenii V. Potapenko, David Schwartz, Tali Mandel, Nimrod Ashkenazy, Dana Fuerst, Guy Atsmon, Abraham B. Korol, Michael Benjamin Kantar, Avi Bar‐Massada, Sariel Hübner
The paper identifies adaptive haplotype blocks in wild barley linked to drought and heat response genes, enriched for transposable elements, and predicts maladaptive risk due to climate change.
bioRxiv · Sep 2, 2024 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology