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Relaxation of Selective Constraints Causes Independent Selenoprotein Extinction in Insect Genomes
BACKGROUND: Selenoproteins are a diverse family of proteins notable for the presence of the 21st amino acid, selenocysteine. Until very recently, all metazoan genomes investigated encoded selenoproteins, and these proteins had therefore been believed to be essential for animal life. Challenging this...
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Public Library of Science
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2500217/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18698431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002968 |