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General gene movement off the X chromosome in the Drosophila genus

In Drosophila melanogaster, there is an excess of genes duplicated by retroposition from the X chromosome to the autosomes. Most of those retrogenes that originated on the X chromosome have testis expression pattern. These observations could be explained by natural selection favoring genes that avoi...

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Main Authors: Vibranovski, Maria D., Zhang, Yong, Long, Manyuan
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2675978/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19251740
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.088609.108
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