Tyler A. Elliott

TL;DR: A comprehensive pipeline called Extensive de-novo TE Annotator (EDTA) is created that produces a filtered non-redundant TE library for annotation of structurally intact and fragmented elements and will greatly facilitate TE annotation in eukaryotic genomes.

TL;DR: This study presents the results of phylogenetically informed comparisons of genome data for more than 500 species of eukaryotes to shed new light on the causes and correlates of genome size diversity and several relationships are described between genome size and other genomic parameters.

TL;DR: Differences in genome size are thought to arise primarily through accumulation of TEs, but beyond a certain point (~500 Mbp), TE diversity does not increase with genome size.

TL;DR: This work critically evaluates the prospects of ecological neutral theory (ENT), a popular model in ecology, as it applies at the genomic level, and compares this genome‐level application to two other, more familiar approaches in genomics that rely on neutral mechanisms.

TL;DR: It is found that ecological factors do in fact explain most of the variation in TE abundance and distribution among TE lineages across less distantly related host organisms, and this suggests an appropriate explanatory domain for the burgeoning discipline of transposon ecology.