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A convincing instance of neofunctionalization is the evolution of antibacterial activity in the ECP gene in Old World Monkeys and hominoids after a burst of amino-acid changes following the tandem duplication of the progenitor gene EDN (a ribonuclease) some 30 MYA (Zhang et al.
[ 42] cloned another full-length myosin, ATM2, and two partial length myosins MYA2 and MYA3.
According to RepeatMasker annotation, all the L1-TDs in Table 1are of a primate-specific lineage, and it is believed that the ancestral primate genome, the structure of which is thought to be very similar to the modern human genome, existed 60-70 Mya [ 49 ] . Thus, at the earliest point in time that we can reliably detect intact L1 elements, most human genes may have been largely established.
We used the motor domain from MYA1 to search the Arabidopsis database [ 11] for sequences with similarity to this domain.
Recent evidence suggests that the explosion of segmental duplications in recent primate evolution has been caused in part by the rapid proliferation of Alu elements about 40 MYA.