Drosophila arginase is produced from a nonvital gene that contains the elav locus within its third intron.

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A Drosophila gene encoding a 351-amino acid-long predicted arginase (40% identity with vertebrate arginases) is reported. Interestingly, the third intron of the arginase gene includes the elav locus, whose coding sequence is on the complementary DNA strand to that of the arginase. Terrestrial vertebrates produce two arginases from duplicated genes. One form, essentially present in the liver, is a key enzyme of...

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