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Sex-specific aspects of endogenous retroviral insertion and deletion

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2013
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Title
Sex-specific aspects of endogenous retroviral insertion and deletion
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-13-243
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Patrick Gemmell, Jotun Hein, Aris Katzourakis

Abstract

We wish to understand how sex and recombination affect endogenous retroviral insertion and deletion. While theory suggests that the risk of ectopic recombination will limit the accumulation of repetitive DNA in areas of high meiotic recombination, the experimental evidence so far has been inconsistent. Under the assumption of neutrality, we examine the genomes of eighteen species of animal in order to compute the ratio of solo-LTRs that derive from insertions occurring down the male germ line as opposed to the female one (male bias). We also extend the simple idea of comparing autosome to allosome in order to predict the ratio of full-length proviruses we would expect to see under conditions of recombination linked deletion or otherwise.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 13%
Unknown 13 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 27%
Student > Bachelor 3 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Student > Master 2 13%
Professor 1 7%
Other 3 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 73%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 7%
Arts and Humanities 1 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 7%
Other 0 0%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 September 2020.
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#14,913,921
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Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#2,489
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#121,209
of 228,787 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#41
of 69 outputs
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