transposon ecology

Applying ecological models to communities of genetic elements: the case of neutral theory

A promising recent development in molecular biology involves viewing the genome as a mini-ecosystem, where genetic elements are compared to organisms and the surrounding cellular and genomic structures are regarded as the local environment. Here, we …

A novel application of ecological analyses to assess transposable element distributions in the genome of the domestic cow, Bos taurus

Transposable elements (TEs) are among the most abundant components of many eukaryotic genomes. Efforts to explain TE abundance, as well as TE diversity among genomes, have led some researchers to draw an analogy between genomic and ecological …