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A gene family derived from transposable elements during early angiosperm evolution has reproductive fitness benefits in Arabidopsis thaliana.
PLoS genetics - 1 Sept 2012
Joly-Lopez Zoé, Forczek Ewa, Hoen Douglas R, Juretic Nikoleta, Bureau Thomas E
Abstract excerpt
The benefits of ever-growing numbers of sequenced eukaryotic genomes will not be fully realized until we learn to decipher vast stretches of noncoding DNA, largely composed of transposable elements. Transposable elements persist through self-replication, but some genes once encoded by transposabl...
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