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SUBMITTER: Ono R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3158469 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes 20110602 4
In humans and mice, there are 11 genes derived from sushi-ichi related retrotransposons, some of which are known to play essential roles in placental development. Interestingly, this family of retrotransposons was thought to exist only in eutherian mammals, indicating their significant contributions to the eutherian evolution, but at least one, PEG10, is conserved between marsupials and eutherians. Here we report a novel sushi-ichi retrotransposon-derived gene, SIRH12, in the tammar wallaby, an ...[more]