Thank you, Darren! You’re right, it is a TE. However, I’ve noticed that many papers refer to these TEs (gypsy/gypsy, with an envelope protein) as insect endogenous retroviruses. Do you think that terminology is inaccurate? Curious to hear your opinion on that

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