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Lineage-Specific Expansions of Retroviral Insertions within the Genomes of African Great Apes but Not Humans and Orangutans

Retroviral infections of the germline have the potential to episodically alter gene function and genome structure during the course of evolution. Horizontal transmissions between species have been proposed, but little evidence exists for such events in the human/great ape lineage of evolution. Based...

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Autores principales: Yohn, Chris T, Jiang, Zhaoshi, McGrath, Sean D, Hayden, Karen E, Khaitovich, Philipp, Johnson, Matthew E, Eichler, Marla Y, McPherson, John D, Zhao, Shaying, Pääbo, Svante, Eichler, Evan E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1054887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15737067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030110