Transposable element islands facilitate adaptation to novel environments in an invasive species.

De novo assembly of ~23M Illumina paired-end reads from the JP lineage that could not be mapped to the BR reference genome resulted in 17 contigs after filtering with highly significant BLASTx hits against proteins of other ants, suggesting that these conserved sequences were lost in the BR lineage instead of being gained in the JP lineage.

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