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Tracing the protectors path from the germ line to the genome.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 31 Aug 2010
Coutandin Daniel, Ou Horng Der, Löhr Frank, Dötsch Volker
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One of the basic principles that nature uses in evolution is to recycle successful concepts and create new functions by modifying existing units. This conservatism in evolution has resulted in an astonishingly high sequence identity of genes, even between evolutionarily distant species such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and Homo sapiens. The recycling of successful concepts in conjunction with gene...
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