Paucity of chimeric gene-transposable element transcripts in the <it>Drosophila melanogaster </it>genome

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Recent analysis of the human and mouse genomes has shown that a substantial proportion of protein coding genes and <it>cis</it>-regulatory elements contain transposable element (TE) sequences, implicating TE domestication...

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Main Authors: Petrov Dmitri A, Lenkov Kapa, Lipatov Mikhail, Bergman Casey M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-11-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/3/24