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SUBMITTER: Begun DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1894579 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Begun David J DJ Lindfors Heather A HA Kern Andrew D AD Jones Corbin D CD
Genetics 20070415 2
The mutational origin and subsequent evolution of de novo genes, which are hypothesized to be genes of recent origin that are not obviously related to ancestral coding sequence, are poorly understood. However, accumulating evidence suggests that such genes may often function in male reproduction. Here we use testis-derived expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from Drosophila yakuba to identify genes that have likely arisen either in D. yakuba or in the D. yakuba/D. erecta ancestor. We found several su ...[more]