Our paper is now out in the @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal (and selected as editor's choice)! We use an ecological framework to analyze the distribution of small transposable elements in over 30,000 prokaryotic genomes, characterizing their genomic niche doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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Characterizing the ecological niche of insertion sequences within prokaryotic genomes
Abstract. Insertion sequences (ISs) are widespread prokaryotic transposable elements, often regarded as genomic parasites that primarily cause deleterious
