Transposable elements: not as quiet as a mouse.
In this issue of Genome Biology, Nellåker et al. show massive purging of deleterious transposable element variants, through negative selection, in 18 mouse strains.
Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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