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. 2007 Mar;63(6):1565-7.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05637.x.

A tale of two dead ends: origin of a potential new gene and a potential new transposable element

A John Clutterbuck  1
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A tale of two dead ends: origin of a potential new gene and a potential new transposable element

A John Clutterbuck. Mol Microbiol. 2007 Mar.
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Abstract

An article in this issue of Molecular Microbiology by Cultrone et al. describes how a non-autonomous helitron element could arise from its autonomous parent transposon by deletion followed by readthrough into an adjacent gene and its promoter, thus providing a mechanism for distribution of a specifically regulated promoter sequence around the genome, where it would have the potential to evolve new functions.

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