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Contrasted patterns of evolution of the LINE-1 retrotransposon in perissodactyls: the history of a LINE-1 extinction

BACKGROUND: LINE-1 (L1) is the dominant autonomously replicating non-LTR retrotransposon in mammals. Although our knowledge of L1 evolution across the tree of life has considerably improved in recent years, what we know of L1 evolution in mammals is biased and comes mostly from studies in primates (...

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Autores principales: Sookdeo, Akash, Hepp, Crystal M., Boissinot, Stéphane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5872511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29610583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13100-018-0117-4