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Selective expansion of the newly evolved genomic variants of retrotransposon 1731 in the Drosophila genomes.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Dec 2004
Kalmykova A I, Kwon D A, Rozovsky Ya M, Hueber N, Capy P, Maisonhaute C, Gvozdev V A
Abstract excerpt
The structural variants of the regulatory and coding regions of the LTR-retrotransposon 1731 are described. Two classes of genomic copies of retrotransposon 1731, with and without frameshifting strategy to express Gag and Pol proteins, were earlier revealed in the D. melanogaster genome. Copies without frameshifting are shown to be evolved from an ancient variant with frameshifting and are widespread in the...
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