Naville M, Henriet S, Warren I, Sumic S, Reeve M, Volff JN, Chourrout D.

Curr Biol. 2019 Mar 2. pii: S0960-9822(19)30139-3. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.080

Massive Changes of Genome Size Driven by Expansions of Non-autonomous Transposable Elements.

Larger genomes found in larger species. No evidence for genome duplication. Transposable element density correlated with genome size. SINEs (short interspersed nuclear elements) and MITEs (miniature inverted transposable elements) account for most of the TE expansion. Ancestor is likely to have had a small genome.