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Genomes were forged by massive bombardments with retroelements and retrosequences.
Genetica - 1 Jan 1999
Brosius J
Abstract excerpt
Retroposition is an efficient route to move coding regions around the genome 'in search' of novel regulatory elements and to shotgun regulatory elements into the genome 'in search' of new target genes. The templates for such retrogenes are mRNAs, and for regulatory retronuons (nuon = any definable nucleic acid sequence) usually small non-mRNAs (snmRNAs). An example in support of the 'master gene' model for SINEs...
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