Transposable element over-accumulation in autopolyploids results from relaxed purifying selection and provides variants for rapid local adaptation
Pierre Baduel, Leandro Quadrana, Ben Hunter, Kirsten Bomblies, Vincent Colot
The paper shows that TE over-accumulation in autopolyploids is due to relaxed purifying selection and that some TE variants near stress response genes may aid local adaptation.
Nature Communications · Dec 20, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics