title: What prevents transposable elements from taking over the genome? A commentary on 'A test for the role of natural selection in the stabilization of transposable element copy number in a population of Drosophila melanogaster' by Elizabeth Montgomery, Brian Charlesworth and Charles H. Langley.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Campus Box 7614, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. trudy_mackay@ncsu.edu
authors.forename: Trudy F C
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Mackay
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D018628:Gene Dosage; D016678:Genome; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012641:Selection, Genetic
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements