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Demography and weak selection drive patterns of transposable element diversity in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Sept 2008
Lockton Steven, Ross-Ibarra Jeffrey, Gaut Brandon S
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Transposable elements (TEs) are the major component of most plant genomes, and characterizing their population dynamics is key to understanding plant genome complexity. Yet there have been few studies of TE population genetics in plant systems. To study the roles of selection, transposition, and demography in shaping TE population diversity, we generated a polymorphism dataset for six TE families in four...
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