Transposable elements in natural populations with a mixture of selected and neutral insertion sites.

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This paper examines models of the population dynamics of transposable elements when chromosomal sites vary with respect to the effect on fitness of mutations caused by element insertions. Element abundance is assumed to be stabilised solely by the joint results of transposition, excision, and selection against insertional mutations. When there are only two classes of site, selected and neutral, it is hard to find...

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