Recent advances in DNA sequencing technology have greatly reduced the cost, time and effort required to generate large volumes of sequence data [1]. While new sequencing approaches have been used to great effect in well-studied species [2,3], perhaps the biggest beneficiaries have been research ...
It occurs when a reverse transcriptase enzyme synthesizes DNA from an mRNA template and the DNA is then integrated into the genome. Because retrotransposition usually uses mature mRNAs as a substrate, the resulting duplicate genes often lack introns. Degree distribution The degree of a node in a...
Recent advances in DNA sequencing technology have greatly reduced the cost, time and effort required to generate large volumes of sequence data [1]. While new sequencing approaches have been used to great effect in well-studied species [2,3], perhaps the biggest beneficiaries have been research ...
Telomeres are DNA–protein complexes that cap chromosomal ends, promoting chromosomal stability [159], and their length is a factor limiting the maximum number of cell divisions (i.e., the Hayflick limit) and the regenerative potential [160]. Telomeres shorten with age (i.e., the so-called ...