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The arms race in noncoding regions of transposable element: the evolution of anti-silencing and RNAi
Taku Sasaki, Kae Kato, Aoi Hosaka…·Tetsuji Kakutani
The paper shows that RNAi targets noncoding regions of VANDAL TEs, while VANC proteins evolved to escape this silencing, suggesting a co-evolutionary arms race between TEs and host defense mechanisms.
DOI 10.1101/2022.12.19.521048