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A newly isolated family of short interspersed repetitive elements (SINEs) in coregonid fishes (whitefish) with sequences that are almost identical to those of the SmaI family of repeats: possible evidence for the horizontal transfer of SINEs.
Genetics - 1 May 1997
Hamada M, Kido Y, Himberg M, Reist J D, Ying C, Hasegawa M, Okada N
Abstract excerpt
The SmaI family of repeats is present only in the chum salmon and the pink salmon, and it is not present in five other species in the same genus or in other species in closely related genera. In the present study, we showed that another short interspersed repetitive elements (SINEs) family, which is almost identical to the SmaI family, is present in all fishes in the subfamily Coregoninae, being regarded as the...
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