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And a browser's source code is only a fraction of the size of that of an operating system.
For example, AAAT STRs are very often (86%) associated with Alu elements, consistent with the hypothesis that most of these repeats evolved from the polyA tail of Alus [ 22 ] . An unexpectedly large fraction of AGAT STRs (16%) were found to be associated with LTRs.
The critical new parameter set required for this application is the value of klip [i], the fraction of lipid in each organ i.
If this interpretation is correct, our results confirm those of Schmid and co-workers [ 34, 59] who have shown that a large fraction of randomly sampled coding sequences and orphan genes are rapidly evolving in the genus Drosophila . Our results are also consistent with those of Ashburner et al . [ 60] who show that genes with known mutant phenotypes in D. melanogaster are more likely to have a conserved homolog in GenBank relative to predicted genes with no known phenotype.
In particular, a substantial fraction of these paralogs encode (predicted) membrane or secreted proteins.