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Evolution of the vertebrate Y RNA cluster

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Relatively little is known about the evolutionary histories of most classes of non-protein coding RNAs. Here we consider Y RNAs, a relatively rarely studied group of related pol-III transcripts. A single cluster of functional genes is preserved throughout tetrapod evolution, which however exhibits clade-specific tandem duplications, gene-losses, and rearrangements.

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Acknowledgments

Discussions with Michael M. Müller are gratefully acknowledged. This work has been funded, in part, by the German DFG Bioinformatics Initiative BIZ-6/1-2.

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  1. Department of Combinatorics and Geometry (DCG), CAS/MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS) Campus, Shanghai, China

    Axel Mosig & Meng Guofeng

  2. Max Planck Insitute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstrasse 22, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Axel Mosig & Bärbel M. R. Stadler

  3. Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107, Leipzig, Germany

    Peter F. Stadler

  4. RNomics Group, Fraunhofer Institut für Zelltherapie und Immunologie, IZI Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Peter F. Stadler

  5. Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Peter F. Stadler

  6. Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, NM, 87501, USA

    Peter F. Stadler

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Mosig, A., Guofeng, M., Stadler, B.M.R. et al. Evolution of the vertebrate Y RNA cluster. Theory Biosci. 126, 9–14 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12064-007-0003-y

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