The Dynamics of Transposable Elements in Structured Populations
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The dynamics of transposable elements in structured populations.
We analyzed the dynamics of transposable elements (TEs) according to Wright's island and continent-island models, assuming that selection tends to counter the deleterious effects of TEs. We showed that migration between host populations has no impact on either the existence or the stability of the TE copy number equilibrium points obtained in the absence of migration. However, if the migration ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.032243