Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

A transposable element insertion is associated with an alternative life history strategy

  • Alyssa Woronik,
  • Kalle Tunström,
  • Michael W. Perry,
  • Ramprasad Neethiraj,
  • Constanti Stefanescu,
  • Maria de la Paz Celorio-Mancera,
  • Oskar Brattström,
  • Jason Hill,
  • Philipp Lehmann,
  • Reijo Käkelä,
  • Christopher W. Wheat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13596-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Tradeoffs are central to life history theory and evolutionary biology, yet almost nothing is known about their mechanistic basis. Here the authors characterize one such mechanism and find a transposable element insertion is associated with the switch between alternative life history strategies.