Evolutionary BiologyCommunications BiologyPeer-reviewed
Size evolution of gigantic genomes suggests stochastic outcomes of transposable element/host silencing interactions
Jie Wang, Guangpu Zhang, Cheng Sun…·Rachel Lockridge Mueller
The paper examines TE/host interactions in salamander genomes and finds no correlation between genome size and TE deletion rates or suppression, suggesting stochastic TE accumulation in gigantic genomes.
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