TY - JOUR AU - McCollum, Andrea M. AU - Ganko, Eric W. AU - Barrass, Paula A. AU - Rodriguez, Jose M. AU - McDonald, John F. PY - 2002 DA - 2002/03/19 TI - Evidence for the adaptive significance of an LTR retrotransposon sequence in a Drosophila heterochromatic gene JO - BMC Evolutionary Biology SP - 5 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - The potential adaptive significance of transposable elements (TEs) to the host genomes in which they reside is a topic that has been hotly debated by molecular evolutionists for more than two decades. Recent genomic analyses have demonstrated that TE fragments are associated with functional genes in plants and animals. These findings suggest that TEs may contribute significantly to gene evolution. SN - 1471-2148 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-2-5 DO - 10.1186/1471-2148-2-5 ID - McCollum2002 ER -