Uncontrolled transposable element (TE) insertions and excisions can cause chromosome breaks and mutations with dramatic deleterious effects. The PIWI interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway functions as an ad
Table S1. Characteristics of the DNA alignments and data partitions and parameters and summary statistics of the PAUP and Bayesian analyses : Explanation note: Five DNA sequence alignments for
We reconstructed the evolutionary relationships of animal C24-SMTs from sponges, cnidarians, rotifers, mollusks and annelids, and compared these to previously described C24-SMTs from bacteria, microbi
