Modelling the proliferation of transposable elements in populations under environmental stress

TL;DR

This paper models how environmental stress influences the proliferation of transposable elements in sexual diploid populations, aiming to understand their evolutionary dynamics under changing conditions.

Contribution

It introduces a new model linking environmental change to transposable element activity and proliferation in diploid populations.

Findings

Environmental stress increases TE activity and proliferation.

Model predicts population genetic impacts of TE proliferation.

Results suggest TEs can rapidly expand under environmental change.

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the evolution of sexual diploid populations which are hosts for active TE families. Our purpose is to explore the relationship between the environmental change, that influences such population and activity of those TEs that are present in genomes.