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De-novo emergence of SINE retroposons during the early evolution of passerine birds

BACKGROUND: Passeriformes (“perching birds” or passerines) make up more than half of all extant bird species. The genome of the zebra finch, a passerine model organism for vocal learning, was noted previously to contain thousands of short interspersed elements (SINEs), a group of retroposons that is...

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Autores principales: Suh, Alexander, Bachg, Sandra, Donnellan, Stephen, Joseph, Leo, Brosius, Jürgen, Kriegs, Jan Ole, Schmitz, Jürgen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13100-017-0104-1