The involucrin gene of Old-World monkeys and other higher primates: synapomorphies and parallelisms resulting from the same gene-altering mechanism.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040733

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The involucrin gene of Old-World monkeys and other higher primates: synapomorphies and parallelisms resulting from the same gene-altering mechanism.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 1992

Djian P, Green H

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The involucrin gene of platyrrhines and hominoids contains a segment of 10-codon repeats which were added vectorially at the same site in the coding region. We have now cloned and sequenced the involucrin gene of four cercopithecoid monkeys--two macaques (mulatta and fascicularis) and two Cercopithecus monkeys (aethiops and hamlyni). Each gene contains a similar segment of short repeats; some of these were added...

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The involucrin gene of Old-World monkeys and other higher primates: synapomorphies and parallelisms resulting from the same gene-altering mechanism.

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