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SUBMITTER: Zou M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3532220 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zou Ming M Wang Guoxiu G He Shunping S
BMC research notes 20120801
<h4>Background</h4>RNA-based gene duplicates (retrocopies) played pivotal roles in many physiological processes. Nowadays, functional retrocopies have been systematically identified in several mammals, fruit flies, plants, zebrafish and other chordates, etc. However, studies about this kind of duplication in Caenorhabditis nematodes have not been reported.<h4>Findings</h4>We identified 43, 48, 43, 9, and 42 retrocopies, of which 6, 15, 18, 3, and 13 formed chimeric genes in C. brenneri, C. brigg ...[more]