Testing the retroelement invasion hypothesis for the emergence of the ancestral eukaryotic cell [Evolution]

Phylogenetic evidence suggests that the invasion and proliferation of retroelements, selfish mobile genetic elements that copy and paste themselves within a host genome, was one of the early evolutionary events in the emergence of eukaryotes. Here we test the effects of this event by determining the pressures retroelements exert on...

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