Non-allelic gene conversion enables rapid evolutionary change at multiple regulatory sites encoded by transposable elements

Transposable elements (TEs) allow rewiring of regulatory networks, and the recent amplification of the ISX element dispersed 77 functional but suboptimal binding sites for the dosage compensation complex to a newly formed X chromosome in Drosophila. Here we identify two linked refining mutations wit...

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Main Authors: Christopher E Ellison, Doris Bachtrog
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-02-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/05899