In article <eesnyder.697953088 at beagle> eesnyder at boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder) writes:
>robison1 at husc9.harvard.edu (Keith Robison) writes:
>>>In article <eesnyder.697915657 at beagle> eesnyder at boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder) writes:
>>>Just as _Drosophila_ P-elements appeared to have
>>>arisen _de novo_ in the 1920s...
>>>I know that P-elements are believed to be of evolutionarily recent origin,
>>but THAT recent? (references please)
>>Yes, they are very recent. I don't have the original papers handy
Last night I just read an article on Population Genetics of Transposible
elements in Drosophila in the 1989(?) Ann. Rev. of Genetics...and, yes,
the opinion is P-elements are very recent.
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