Transposable element and host silencing activity in gigantic genomes
Jie Wang, Liang Yuan, Jiaxing Tang, Jiongyu Liu, Cheng Sun, Michael W. Itgen, Guiying Chen, Stanley K. Sessions, Guangpu Zhang, 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.
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology · Feb 24, 2023Peer-reviewedGenomics