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Retrotransposon sequence variation in four asexual plant species.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Apr 2006
Docking T Roderick, Saadé Fabienne E, Elliott Miranda C, Schoen Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
Transposable elements (TEs) can be viewed as genetic parasites that persist in populations due to their capacity for increase in copy number and the inefficacy of selection against them. A corollary of this hypothesis is that TEs are more likely to spread within sexual populations and be eliminated or inactivated within asexual populations. While previous work with animals has shown that asexual taxa may contain...
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