Tandem repeats in giant archaeal Borg elements undergo rapid evolution and create new intrinsically disordered regions in proteins

• Marie Charlotte Schoelmerich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Rohan Sachdeva,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Jacob West-Roberts,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Lucas Waldburger,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Jillian F. Banfield

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jbanfield@berkeley.edu

  Affiliations Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7679-0043

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