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Abundant and species-specific DINE-1 transposable elements in 12 Drosophila genomes

Hsiao-Pei Yang* and Daniel A Barbash

Genome Biology 2008, 9:R39 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-2-r39

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Families of transposable elements, population structure and the origin of species

Jerzy Jurka, Weidong Bao, Kenji K Kojima Biology Direct 2011, 6:44 (19 September 2011)

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Families of transposable elements (TEs) originate primarily by genetic drift in small populations and may fundamentally impact the origin of species and genome evolution.

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Widespread evidence for horizontal transfer of transposable elements across Drosophila genomes

Carolina Bartolomé, Xabier Bello, Xulio Maside Genome Biology 2009, 10:R22 (18 February 2009)

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A genome-wide comparison of transposable elements reveals evidence for unexpectedly high rates of horizontal transfer between three species of Drosophila

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