INVASIVE JUMPING GENES. “In mammalian genomes…multiple waves of ERV invasions together amount to 5–10% of nuclear genome content. A recent study identified no less than 3100 clusters of related ERV sequences in 65 vertebrate genomes, implying that thousands of independent endogenisation events occurred during vertebrate evolution.” (ERV= Endogenous retroviruses).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X17301685
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022