JC
José Cerca
@naturalselection.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist passionate about islands, adaptive radiations, genomes and ecological niches 🏝️🧬🌲🌼🕸️🐦
jcerca.github.io
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TL;DR No evidence for TE release in hybrid pops No evidence for TE control in different climatic niches Why? These are very TE-rich genomes ( 80% of the genome are TEs), perhaps they hit some cap. Removing individual TEs from genomes may not confer a selective advantage when genomes are large.
Forgot the link www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
JC
José Cerca
@naturalselection.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist passionate about islands, adaptive radiations, genomes and ecological niches 🏝️🧬🌲🌼🕸️🐦
jcerca.github.io
199 followers119 following81 posts