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. 2007 Nov 20;65(2):201–204. doi: 10.1007/s00018-007-7369-3

Conserved eukaryotic transposable elements and the evolution of gene regulation

J Jurka 1,
PMCID: PMC11131877  PMID: 18030428

Abstract.

Multiple remnants of transposable elements preserved in cis-regulatory modules may represent a record of mutations that were critical to the evolution of gene regulation and speciation.

Keywords. Transposable elements, gene regulation, conservation, speciation, evolution

Footnotes

Received 13 August 2007; received after revision 8 October 2007; accepted 23 October 2007


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