Figure 2
From: How does selfing affect the dynamics of selfish transposable elements?
Effect of selfing on the long-term dynamics after invasion of the initial copy. Representative dynamics of the long term invasion (10,000 generations from 1 initial copy within large and small populations (A, B : N = 10,000 and C : N = 100) and different selfing rates Z = 0, Z = 0.5, Z = 0.75). A single simulation is presented for each case. The level of gray is proportional to the frequency at which each copy number is present in the population. The initial burst of transposition is followed by a decrease in the number of TEs due to the emergence of non-autonomous copies. Active transposition can persist when the probability of adaptive insertion is low Ps > 0= 0.01% (A) and 'domesticated' copies can be fixed (B) when this probability is high (Ps > 0= 0.1%). The frequency of cycles tends to increase with the selfing rate for any value of the probability of adaptive insertion. In opposition to large population size, the loss of the TE family is systematic in small populations (C).