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SUBMITTER: Zhang HH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7070016 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Hua-Hao HH Peccoud Jean J Xu Min-Rui-Xuan MR Zhang Xiao-Gu XG Gilbert Clément C
Nature communications 20200313 1
Horizontal transfer of transposable elements (HTT) is an important process shaping eukaryote genomes, yet very few studies have quantified this phenomenon on a large scale or have evaluated the selective constraints acting on transposable elements (TEs) during vertical and horizontal transmission. Here we screen 307 vertebrate genomes and infer a minimum of 975 independent HTT events between lineages that diverged more than 120 million years ago. HTT distribution greatly differs from null expect ...[more]