Uncontrolled transposable element (TE) insertions and excisions can cause chromosome breaks and mutations with dramatic deleterious effects. The PIWI interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway functions as an ad
Models were implemented with the codeml algorithm in the PAML package. Under the M2 model, there were >300 codons with ω 99% (not listed in table). These were subje
We reconstructed the evolutionary relationships of animal C24-SMTs from sponges, cnidarians, rotifers, mollusks and annelids, and compared these to previously described C24-SMTs from bacteria, microbi
