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I'm an evolutionary ecologist with a PhD who studies birds & who writes about all sorts of #science topics (links to these pieces will pop up here).

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My latest preprint exploring transposable element (TE) activity in the genomes of sparrows.

biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/…

We found remarkably high levels of repeat content in the newly generated genomes of
Bell's, Song, and Savannah Sparrow. 31% of the Bell's sparrow genome is spanned by repetitive elements.
This is ~3x as much as previously reported in most songbirds.

Thanks to all my co-authors for their contributions to this project!

#Genomics
#TransposableElements
#ornithology
#sparrows

Remarkably high repeat content in the genomes of sparrows: the importance of genome assembly completeness for transposable element discovery.

Transposable elements (TE) play critical roles in shaping genome evolution. However, the highly repetitive sequence content of TEs is a major source of assembly gaps.
bioRxiv
#genomics #TransposableElements #ornithology #sparrows

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