Reviving the dead: history and reactivation of an extinct l1.

Although L1 sequences are present in the genomes of all placental mammals and marsupials examined to date, their activity was lost in the megabat family, Pteropodidae, ∼24 million years ago. To examine the characteristics of L1s prior to their extinction, we analyzed the evolutionary history of L1s...

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Main Authors: Lei Yang, John Brunsfeld, LuAnn Scott, Holly Wichman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4072516?pdf=render