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Rapid emergence of hyperparasitic elements may stop P-element invasions in the absence of a piRNA-based host defence
Matthew Beaumont, Divya Selvaraju, Riccardo Pianezza, Robert Kofler
The paper shows that non-autonomous P-element insertions can stabilize TE copy numbers without piRNA defence, revealing a novel mechanism for TE population dynamics.