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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.
Thus, a single enzymatic function in one organism is accommodated through the cumulative expression of three paralog genes, but in another organism is only encoded by a portion of a single gene.
The paralog TrpAa•TrpAb protein of Anabaena sp (Asp_2) seems to have a distinctly different linker, and it maybe that the two fusions in Anabaena arose as two independent events.
It was therefore not surprising to discover a novel ankyrin, ANKfc, immediately distal to SLC4A9, and thus distal to the EGF paralog HEGFL, on 5q31.
The starting point for our studies was a reference set of 24 Drosophila pre-miRNA sequences ( let-7 , the 21 originally identified by Lagos-Quintana and colleagues, mir-125 , and a previously undescribed paralog of mir-2 that we named mir-2c [ 9 10 29 ] ). We analyzed this set to derive rules and determine parameters that specifically describe known miRNA genes within anonymous genomic sequence.