Human genome was shaped by an evolutionary arms race with itself
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2014 - New findings by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggest that an evolutionary arms race between rival elements within the genomes of primates drove the evolution of complex regulatory networks that orchestrate the activity of genes in every cell of our bodies. The arms race is between mobile DNA sequences known as "retrotransposons" (a.k.a. "jumping genes") and the g ... more
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