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Chimpanzee-specific endogenous retrovirus generates genomic variations in the chimpanzee genome.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Mun Seyoung, Lee Jungnam, Kim Yun-Ji, Kim Heui-Soo, Han Kyudong
Abstract excerpt
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), eukaryotic transposable elements, exist as proviruses in vertebrates including primates and contribute to genomic changes during the evolution of their host genomes. Many studies about ERVs have focused on the elements residing in the human genome but only a few studies have focused on the elements which exist in non-human primate genomes. In this study, we identified 256...
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