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Two persistent LINE-1 lineages in Peromyscus have unequal rates of evolution.
Genetics - 1 Apr 1996
Casavant N C, Sherman A N, Wichman H A
Abstract excerpt
LINE-1, the major family of long, interspersed repeats in the mammalian genome, moves via an RNA intermediate and encodes its own reverse transcriptase. Comparative sequence analysis was used to reconstruct the phylogenetic history of LINE-1 dynamics in the deer mouse, Peromyscus. As is the case in Mus and Rattus, a very small number of active templates produce the majority of LINE-1 copies in Peromyscus....
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