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Inference for the initial stage of domain shuffling: tracing the evolutionary fate of the PIPSL retrogene in hominoids.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2010
Ohshima Kazuhiko, Igarashi Kumiko
Abstract excerpt
Domain shuffling has provided extraordinarily diverse functions to proteins. Nevertheless, how newly combined domains are coordinated to create novel functions remains a fundamental question of genetic and phenotypic evolution. Previously, we reported a unique mechanism of gene creation, whereby new combinations of functional domains are assembled from distinct genes at the RNA level, reverse transcribed, and...
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