GenomicsFrontiers in Cell and Developmental BiologyPeer-reviewed
Transposable element and host silencing activity in gigantic genomes
Jie Wang, Liang Yuan, Jiaxing Tang…·Rachel Lockridge Mueller
The paper investigates TE silencing mechanisms in a salamander with a large genome, finding that piRNA pathway targets TEs proportionally to their expression and that males have higher TE expression than females.