Thank you, Pleuni! 😊
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Thank you, Pleuni! 😊
To clarify the scope: we didn’t test GS–TE relationships ourselves, but we discuss animal studies showing that GS differences often reflect lineage-specific TE dynamics not predicted by Ne (e.g., elifesciences.org/articles/100...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...).
Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals
A large-scale survey across animals reveals no general association between genome size expansion and the relaxation of natural selection.
elifesciences.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
To clarify the scope: we didn’t test GS–TE relationships ourselves, but we discuss animal studies showing that GS differences often reflect lineage-specific TE dynamics not predicted by Ne (e.g., elifesciences.org/articles/100...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...).