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Selfish Genetic Elements

Selfish Genetic Elements is a class of genetic entities that propagate through populations by enhancing their own transmission at the expense of organismal fitness, thereby violating the expectation of Mendelian inheritance and subverting the typical cooperation among genes within a genome.

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Variants

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307

Selfish DNA: the ultimate parasite

Leslie E. Orgel, Francis Crick · Nature · 1980 · 2.2K citations

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Selfish genes, the phenotype paradigm and genome evolution

W. Ford Doolittle, Carmen Sapienza · Nature · 1980 · 1.8K citations

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A Distinct Small RNA Pathway Silences Selfish Genetic Elements in the Germline

Vasily V. Vagin, Alla A. Sigova, Chengjian Li et al. · Science · 2006 · 1.3K citations

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Regulatory evolution of innate immunity through co-option of endogenous retroviruses

Edward B. Chuong, Nels C. Elde, Cédric Feschotte · Science · 2016 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Site-specific selfish genes as tools for the control and genetic engineering of natural populations

Austin Burt · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2003 · 758 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. GD
    Gregory D. D. Hurst

    University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    10 publications · 876 citations

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  2. EV
    Eugene V. Koonin

    National Center for Biotechnology Information, United States

    9 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. AK
    Anna K. Lindholm

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    7 publications · 338 citations

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  4. NW
    Nina Wedell

    University of Exeter, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 332 citations

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  5. BA
    Bruce A. Hay

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    7 publications · 885 citations

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Institutions

445

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    19 h-index

    80 publications

    5K citations

  2. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    13 h-index

    32 publications

    2.9K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    27 publications

    1.6K citations

  4. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    11 h-index

    34 publications

    4.4K citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    23 publications

    1.5K citations

  6. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    1.8K citations

  7. National Center for Biotechnology Information

    Bethesda, United States

    9 h-index

    19 publications

    2.6K citations

  8. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    9 h-index

    21 publications

    2.5K citations

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  1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 22 publications · 2.7K citations

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  3. Evolution

    16 publications · 883 citations

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  4. Science

    14 publications · 4.5K citations

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  5. Genetics

    12 publications · 907 citations

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