Mobile DNAs: the poacher turned gamekeeper.
The selfish DNA hypothesis imagines the genome as an ecological community, a collection of interacting DNA sequences with differing evolutionary origins and potentially different interests. We are now finding out more about the ways in which host sequences can enlist the help of formerly parasitic DNAs.
Brookfield
John F Y
JF
Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, UK.
D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D012641:Selection, Genetic
D004251:DNA Transposable Elements