The phrase "element evolution" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you could use the phrase "element evolution" in a science paper discussing the different stages in the life cycle of an element: "Recent studies in element evolution have suggested that new elements are formed due to the interaction of different isotopes."
Although regulatory element evolution in the 3' UTR has received less attention than in promoter regions, many genes display significantly conserved sequence motifs in the 3' UTR [e.g. 89] [91].
This unique characteristic therefore offers a convenient way by which to study regulatory element evolution.
Classical mobile element evolution models suggested that selfishness drives the evolution of each family.
We therefore propose to integrate classe I elements into the previous model of transposable element evolution through horizontal transfers.
This is indeed a critical aspect of transposable element evolution that impacts how the elements affect their host genomes.
To address the theoretical feasibility of selective change affecting hundreds of loci, we analyzed regulatory element evolution in diploids using a simple deterministic model.
Instead of memory and a few calculating elements, evolution designed every little bit of it to be hideously complex," says Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and main benefactor of the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
Whether expansion of the distal Hoxd domain at the fin-to-limb transition was accomplished by modulation of existing regulatory elements, evolution of new enhancer sequences, or by sustained production of mitogenic factors, such as Fgfs from the apical ridge, is unknown.
Earlier work established that cis-elements in angiosperm chloroplasts recognized by PPR proteins are constrained, and that the loss of an editing requirement by substitution of an edited C with a genomic T relaxed the constraints on cis-element evolution [ 27, 38, 39].
VC, SB, CP, MC and NB contributed in sequence analysis and annotation as well as transposable elements evolution.
Although there are some interesting ideas in this work (the use of a non-tree-like framework to discuss complex evolutionary scenarios about mobile elements evolution), I do not feel its conclusions are solid enough or at least convincingly presented here.
