Suggested Absence of Horizontal Transfer of Retrotransposons between Humans and Domestic Mammal Species
Transposable element sequences are usually vertically inherited but have also spread across taxa via horizontal transfer. Previous investigations of ancient horizontal transfer of transposons have compared consensus sequences, but this method resists detection of recent single or low copy number tra...
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MDPI AG
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Genes |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/8/1223 |