Comparative analysis of morabine grasshopper genomes reveals highly abundant transposable elements and rapidly proliferating satellite DNA repeats
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DOI: 10.1186/s12915-020-00925-x
Abstract: Background Repetitive DNA sequences, including transposable elements (TEs) and tandemly repeated satellite DNA (satDNAs), collectively called the “repeatome”, are found in high proportion in organisms across the Tree of Life. Grasshoppers have large genomes, averaging… read more here.
Keywords: chromosomal races; satellite dna; dna; morabine grasshopper ... See more keywords