BIRTH OF NEW GENES. “It has been demonstrated that non-autonomous MULEs can capture ectopic genomic sequences, such as gene fragments, and transpose them into new genomic locations, thereby forming putative new gene structures.” (MULEs = Mutator-like transposable elements).
http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0954-8
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022