MITE infestation of germline accommodated by genome editing in Blepharisma
Brandon Kwee Boon Seah, Minakshi Singh, Christiane Emmerich, Aditi D. Singh, Christian Woehle, Bruno Hüettel, Adam Byerly, Naomi A. Stover, Mayumi Sugiura, Terue Harumoto, Estienne Carl Swart
The paper analyzes IESs in Blepharisma stoltei, revealing MITEs as a major source of IESs and challenging current models of transposon domestication in ciliates.
bioRxiv · May 2, 2022 · PreprintGenomics