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Long-term and short-term evolutionary impacts of transposable elements on Drosophila.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2012
Lee Yuh Chwen G, Langley Charles H
Abstract excerpt
Transposable elements (TEs) are considered to be genomic parasites and their interactions with their hosts have been likened to the coevolution between host and other nongenomic, horizontally transferred pathogens. TE families, however, are vertically inherited as integral segments of the nuclear genome. This transmission strategy has been suggested to weaken the selective benefits of host alleles repressing the...
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