Dynamics of transposable elements generates structure and symmetries in genetic sequences
Genomics
2020-09-28 v1 Populations and Evolution
Quantitative Methods
Abstract
Genetic sequences are known to possess non-trivial composition together with symmetries in the frequencies of their components. Recently, it has been shown that symmetry and structure are hierarchically intertwined in DNA, suggesting a common origin for both features. However, the mechanism leading to this relationship is unknown. Here we investigate a biologically motivated dynamics for the evolution of genetic sequences. We show that a metastable (long-lived) regime emerges in which sequences have symmetry and structure interlaced in a way that matches that of extant genomes.
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@article{arxiv.2006.12017,
title = {Dynamics of transposable elements generates structure and symmetries in genetic sequences},
author = {Giampaolo Cristadoro and Mirko Degli Esposti and Eduardo G. Altmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.12017},
year = {2020}
}
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6 pagesm 4 figures