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Many factors may explain why certain transposable elements (TEs) spread in some species and not others. On the one hand, they include processes that affect the rate of transposition, such as differences in the regulation of expression; on the other hand, they include characteris…

Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences that are a source of mutations and can target specific sites in host genome. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of TE target site preferences is a fundamental challenge in functional and evolutionary genomics. Here we used…

Climate warming has been predicted to severely impact tropical biodiversity due to its effect on ectotherm metabolism, which increases exponentially with temperature. Many studies have shown that size is reduced in arthropods to compensate for the stress of increased temperature…