Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Evolution of Ty1 copy number control in yeast by horizontal transfer of a gag gene
W. Czaja, D. Bensasson, H. W. Anh…·C. M. Bergman
The paper investigates how horizontal transfer of a gag gene influences Ty1 copy number control in yeast, showing that different Ty1 subfamilies affect transposition rates through genomic content variation.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008632