A plastic genome

Pierre Capy ()
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Pierre Capy: the Laboratoire Populations, Gntique et Evolution, CNRS

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6711, 522-523

Abstract: The genome is not static - it is dynamic and constantly evolving. A striking example of this comes with the identification of a recently evolved gene that encodes a component of a sperm protein. The gene,Sdic, was created from two different parts of two unrelated genes. What's more, part of an intron from one of the original genes was refashioned into a protein-coding exon in the new gene.

Date: 1998
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