Evolutionary origin of regulatory regions of retrogenes in <it>Drosophila</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Retrogenes are processed copies of other genes. This duplication mechanism produces a copy of the parental gene that should not contain introns, and usually does not contain cis-regulatory regions. Here, we computationally address th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Genomics |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/241 |