Long-term experimental evolution reveals purifying selection on piRNA-mediated control of transposable element expression.
Ulfar BergthorssonCaroline J SheebaAnke KonradTony BelicardToni BeltranVaishali KatjuPeter SarkiesPublished in: BMC biology (2020)
Our results show that natural selection in C. elegans is responsible for maintaining low levels of TE expression, and provide new insights into the epigenomic features responsible.