The evolutionary origin of a complex scrambled gene
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The evolutionary origin of a complex scrambled gene.
Some species of ciliates undergo massive DNA elimination and genome rearrangement to construct gene-sized "chromosomes" in their somatic nucleus. An example is the extensively scrambled DNA polymerase alpha gene that is broken into 48 pieces and distributed over two unlinked loci in Stylonychia. To understand the emergence of this complex phenomenon during evolution, we examined DNA polymerase ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507682102