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The Evolution of Small-RNA-Mediated Silencing of an Invading Transposable Element
2017-05-10
Abstract excerpt
Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic parasites that impose fitness costs on their hosts by producing deleterious mutations and disrupting gametogenesis. Host genomes avoid these costs by regulating TE activity, particularly in germline cells where new insertions are heritable and TEs are exceptionally active. However, the capacity of different TE-associated fitness costs to select for repression in the host, an...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e3ed4661-fd79-5156-84b5-de4d64f57bc1
- DOI
- 10.1101/136580