1 Manuscript type: article Evolutionary histories of transposable elements in the genome of the largest living marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil Susanne Gallus, 1* Björn M. Hallström, 1,2,* Vikas Kumar, 1 William G. Dodt, 1,3 Axel Janke, 1,4 Gerald G. Schumann, 5 Maria A. Nilsson 1§ 1 LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 2 Science for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, SE-171 21 Stockholm, Sweden. 3 School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, 2 George Street, Brisbane 4001, Australia. 4 Goethe University Frankfurt Institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity Biologicum Max-von-Laue- Str.13, D-60439 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 5 Division of Medical Biotechnology, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 51-59, D-63225 Langen, Germany. Running title: Tasmanian Devil transposable element dynamics Keywords: Sarcophilus, retrotransposon, DNA transposon *= should be considered shared first authors § Corresponding author: Dr. Maria Nilsson email: maria.nilsson-janke@senckenberg.de © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com MBE Advance Access published January 28, 2015 by guest on January 30, 2015 http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from