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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on September 30, 2004.
Genetics, Vol. 169, 467-474, January 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.032243
The Dynamics of Transposable Elements in Structured Populations
Grégory Deceliere, Sandrine Charles and Christian Biémont1
Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, UMR CNRS 5558, Université Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
1 Corresponding author: Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, UMR Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5558, Université Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
E-mail: biemont{at}biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr
We analyzed the dynamics of transposable elements (TEs) according to Wright's island and continent-island models, assuming that selection tends to counter the deleterious effects of TEs. We showed that migration between host populations has no impact on either the existence or the stability of the TE copy number equilibrium points obtained in the absence of migration. However, if the migration rate is slower than the transposition rate or if selection is weak, then the TE copy numbers in all the populations can be expected to slowly become homogeneous, whereas a heterogeneous TE copy number distribution between populations is maintained if TEs are mobilized in some populations. The mean TE copy number is highly sensitive to the population size, but as a result of migration between populations, it decreases as the sum of the population sizes increases and tends to reach the same value in these populations. We have demonstrated the existence of repulsion between TE insertion sites, which is established by selection and amplified by drift. This repulsion is reduced as much as the migration rate is higher than the recombination rate between the TE insertion sites. Migration and demographic history are therefore strong forces in determining the dynamics of TEs within the genomes and the populations of a species.
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