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The Fate of Transposable Elements in Asexual Populations

4 Aug 2006

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Sexual reproduction and recombination are important for maintaining a stable copy number of transposable elements (TEs). In sexual populations, elements can be contained by purifying selection against host carriers with higher element copy numbers; however, in the absence of sex and recombination, asexual populations could be driven to extinction by an unchecked proliferation of TEs. Here we provide a theoretical...

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PMID: 16888330
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.060434

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