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SUBMITTER: Struchiner CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2789996 | biostudies-other | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Struchiner Claudio J CJ Massad Eduardo E Tu Zhijian Z Ribeiro José M C JM
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20090728 12
Although many mathematical models exist predicting the dynamics of transposable elements (TEs), there is a lack of available empirical data to validate these models and inherent assumptions. Genomes can provide a snapshot of several TE families in a single organism, and these could have their demographics inferred by coalescent analysis, allowing for the testing of theories on TE amplification dynamics. Using the available genomes of the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae, we indicat ...[more]