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Functional opsin retrogene in nocturnal moth

BACKGROUND: Retrotransposed genes are different to other types of genes as they originate from a processed mRNA and are then inserted back into the genome. For a long time, the contribution of this mechanism to the origin of new genes, and hence to the evolutionary process, has been questioned as re...

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Autores principales: Xu, Pengjun, Feuda, Roberto, Lu, Bin, Xiao, Haijun, Graham, Robert I., Wu, Kongming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5070202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27777631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13100-016-0074-8