Article
Characteristics of transposable element exonization within human and mouse.
PloS one - 1 Jun 2010
Sela Noa, Mersch Britta, Hotz-Wagenblatt Agnes, Ast Gil
Abstract excerpt
Insertion of transposed elements within mammalian genes is thought to be an important contributor to mammalian evolution and speciation. Insertion of transposed elements into introns can lead to their activation as alternatively spliced cassette exons, an event called exonization. Elucidation of the evolutionary constraints that have shaped fixation of transposed elements within human and mouse protein coding...
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