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Discovery of novel genes derived from transposable elements using integrative genomic analysis.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2015
Hoen Douglas R, Bureau Thomas E
Abstract excerpt
Complex eukaryotes contain millions of transposable elements (TEs), comprising large fractions of their nuclear genomes. TEs consist of structural, regulatory, and coding sequences that are ordinarily associated with transposition, but that occasionally confer on the organism a selective advantage and may thereby become exapted. Exapted transposable element genes (ETEs) are known to play critical roles in diverse...
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