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Initial surveys of natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster showing that TE insertion alleles are in uniformly low frequency seemed to negate the adaptive hypothesis [ 6 ] . However, the sporadic discovery of degenerate TEs or TE fragments as critical components of functional genes in both plants and animals was sufficient to keep the adaptive hypothesis alive throughout the pre-genomic era [ 7 8 9 10 11 ] .
However, with remarkable consistency, for all three species groups analyzed here, approximately 1% of orthologous genes seem to have experienced accelerated evolution, suggesting functional and potentially adaptive diversification that is conspicuous enough to be detected at a statistically significant level.
An early study [ 25 ] used adaptive thresholding techniques on 1024 separate windows of 8 × 8 pixels.
Once a change in expression of the 240 genes in Table 3 have been validated, similar analyses of their putative function need to be made in order to begin to address what role the genes play in the adaptive and maladaptive response to nerve injury.
This is a question of fundamental importance because the luxury of adaptive immunity is not available to most organisms, having probably evolved along with the vertebrates (Bartl et al.