Details on mechanism.

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@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ Flanking an inversion in _D. buzzati_ between two _Galileo_ elements, the
 exchange of Target-Site Duplication sequences was observed by Cáceres and
 coll., [[(1999|biblio/10411506]]). 
 
+Ectopic recombination of a Galileo element may have caused a recent large-scale
+inversion in _D. buzzati_ ([[Delprat and coll, 2009|biblio/19936241]]).
+
 [[Kent and coll., 2003|biblio/14500911]] reported 2 inversions per Mbp in
 human/mouse comparisons, median length 814. 
 
@@ -60,8 +63,11 @@ _Staggered breaks_ ([[Ranz and coll., 2007|bilbio/17550304]]) caused
 by inverted duplications.  The duplicated sequnces may be coding genes or
 pseudogenes, not just transposable elements.
 
-Ectopic recombination of a Galileo element may have caused a recent large-scale
-inversion in _D. buzzati_ ([[Delprat and coll, 2009|biblio/19936241]]).
+([[Delprat and coll, 2009|biblio/19936241]]) proposed that “Chromosomal
+inversions may be generated by transposons when two ends that are not part of
+the same transposon participate in an aberrant transposition event to a new
+site”.  They give an example where the two transposons are identical copies
+on sister chromatids in G2 phase.
 
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