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Widespread evidence for horizontal transfer of transposable elements across Drosophila genomes

Carolina Bartolomé, Xabier Bello and Xulio Maside*

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Dpto de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica-CIBERER, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Rúa de San Francisco s/n, Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Spain

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:R22 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-2-r22

Published: 18 February 2009

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Table S1: average pairwise nucleotide diversity values at synonymous (KS) and nonsynonymous (KA) sites for orthologous TE families from D. melanogaster, D. simulans and D. yakuba. Table S2: genetic diversity values at synonymous sites for transposable elements in the genomes of D. melanogaster, D. simulans and D. yakuba. Figure S1: distribution of the pairwise genetic distances between TE families found in more than one species.

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