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Large numbers of novel miRNAs originate from DNA transposons and are coincident with a large species radiation in bats.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2014
Platt Roy N, Vandewege Michael W, Kern Colin, Schmidt Carl J, Hoffmann Federico G, Ray David A
Abstract excerpt
Vesper bats (family Vespertilionidae) experienced a rapid adaptive radiation beginning around 36 Ma that resulted in the second most species-rich mammalian family (>400 species). Coincident with that radiation was an initial burst of DNA transposon activity that has continued into the present in some species. Such extensive and recent DNA transposon activity has not been seen in any other extant mammal. Indeed,...
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