New research shows how mobile DNA survives - and thrives - in plants, animals

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 03:35 in Biology & Nature

Bits of movable DNA called transposable elements or TEs fill up the genomes of plants and animals, but it has remained unclear how a genome can survive a rapid burst of hundreds, even thousands of new TE insertions...

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