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Internal eliminated sequences interrupting the Oxytricha 81 locus: allelic divergence, conservation, conversions, and possible transposon origins.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Dec 1996
Seegmiller A, Williams K R, Hammersmith R L, Doak T G, Witherspoon D, Messick T, Storjohann L L, Herrick G
Abstract excerpt
Internal eliminated sequences (IESs) often interrupt ciliate genes in the silent germline nucleus but are exactly excised and eliminated from the developing somatic nucleus from which genes are then expressed. Some long IESs are transposons, supporting the hypothesis that short IESs are ancient transposon relics. In light of that hypothesis and to explore the evolutionary history of a collection of IESs, we have...
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