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SUBMITTER: Balakirev ES
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1207704 | biostudies-other | 1996 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Genetics 19961201 4
We have amplified and sequenced the gene encoding Esterase-P (Est-P) in 10 strains of Drosophila melanogaster. Three premature termination codons occur in the coding region of the gene in two strains. This observation, together with other indirect evidence, leads us to propose that Est-P may be a pseudogene in D. melanogaster. Est-P would be a "cryptic" pseudogene, in the sense that it retains intact the coding sequence (without stop codons and other alterations usually observed in pseudogenes) ...[more]