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Positive selection for the male functionality of a co-retroposed gene in the hominoids

BACKGROUND: New genes generated by retroposition are widespread in humans and other mammalian species. Usually, this process copies a single parental gene and inserts it into a distant genomic location. However, retroposition of two adjacent parental genes, i.e. co-retroposition, had not been report...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yong, Lu, Shujuan, Zhao, Shuqi, Zheng, Xiaofeng, Long, Manyuan, Wei, Liping
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19832993
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-252