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Evolutionary maintenance of selfish homing endonuclease genes in the absence of horizontal transfer.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Nov 2009

Yahara Koji, Fukuyo Masaki, Sasaki Akira, Kobayashi Ichizo

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Homing endonuclease genes are "selfish" mobile genetic elements whose endonuclease promotes the spread of its own gene by creating a break at a specific target site and using the host machinery to repair the break by copying and inserting the gene at this site. Horizontal transfer across the boundary of a species or population within which mating takes place has been thought to be necessary for their evolutionary...

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PMID: 19837694
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908404106
PMCID: PMC2773979

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