Amplification of the ancient murine Lx family of long interspersed repeated DNA occurred during the murine radiation.

doi:10.1007/BF00175491

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Amplification of the ancient murine Lx family of long interspersed repeated DNA occurred during the murine radiation.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 1994

Furano A V, Hayward B E, Chevret P, Catzeflis F, Usdin K

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We identified and characterized the relics of an ancient rodent L1 family, referred to as Lx, which was extensively amplified at the time of the murine radiation about 12 million years ago, and which we showed was ancestral to the modern L1 families in rat and mouse. Here we have extended our ana...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
DNA
Gene Amplification
Genetic Variation
Molecular Sequence Data
Muridae
Phylogeny
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

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