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Long-term evolution of the roo transposable element copy number in mutation accumulation lines of Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetics research - 1 Jun 2011
Díaz-González Julia, Vázquez J Fernando, Albornoz Jesús, Domínguez Ana
Abstract excerpt
The rate of insertion of transposable elements (TEs) is a fundamental parameter to understand both their dynamics and role in the evolution of the eukaryotic genome. Nonetheless, direct estimates of insertion rates are scarce because transposition is in general a rare phenomenon. A great deal of our previous work on transposition was based on a set of long-term mutation accumulation (MA) lines of Drosophila...
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