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Multiple massive domestication and recent amplification of Kolobok superfamily transposons in the clawed frog Xenopus

BACKGROUND: DNA transposons are generally destroyed by mutations and have short lifespans in hosts, as they are neutral or harmful to the host and therefore not conserved by natural selection. The clawed frog Xenopus harbors many DNA transposons and certain families, such as T2-MITE, have extremely...

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Autores principales: Hikosaka, Akira, Konishi, Seigo
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/PMC6004289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29946483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-018-0100-4