Recently amplified Alu family members share a common parental Alu sequence.
Open Access
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Vol. 8 (10) , 4566-4569
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.8.10.4566
Abstract
Three of the most recently inserted primate Alu family members are exceptionally closely related. Therefore, one, or a few, Alu family members are dominating the amplification process and the vast majority are not actively involved in retroposition. Although individual Alu family members are not under any apparent evolutionary constraint, the sequences of these active members are being moderately conserved.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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