Horizontal transfer and evolution of transposable elements in vertebrates

Horizontal transfer (HT) and evolution of transposable elements (TEs) has rarely been quantified on a large scale. Here, the authors screen 307 vertebrate genomes and infer 975 HT events (93% in ray-finned fishes); all TEs involved in HT evolve within genomes under purifying selection, as do most re...

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Main Authors: Hua-Hao Zhang, Jean Peccoud, Min-Rui-Xuan Xu, Xiao-Gu Zhang, Clément Gilbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15149-4