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To amplify gene-specific STSs, D. erecta, D. pseudoobscura, D. willistoni and D. littoralis genomic DNA was isolated from adult flies and used as template for PCR with degenerate primers.
In Buchnera, however, the hypothesized loss of promoters suggests a general genomic decay influencing transcriptional regulation; this is supported by the observation that SD sequences are also degenerate, and by the finding that some of the most frequently used codons in the genome do not have corresponding tRNAs because they have been deleted throughout Buchnera 's evolution.
The Pop2p F-box is unlikely to be a degenerate, non-functional, and hence dispensable, motif, as it carries all signature residues of the F-box (Fig.
Although its collection was depleted both by Hitler’s assault on Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) and the ravages of war, the museum, which has undergone extensive renovations, has some interesting German works of the 19th and 20th centuries: Blechen, Waldmüller, Slevogt, Liebermann (The Flax Workers and portraits of Wilhelm von Bode and Richard Strauss).
Of these 17 pseudogenes, 15 are recombinationally derived (with introns, in tandem to their functional paralogs), one ( Mgstl-Psi ) is retrotransposed (with a poly(A) tail, lacking introns which its functional paralog possesses), and one is too degenerate to classify definitively.