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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.
A second paralog of the tryptophan synthase β subunit ( trpEb-2 ) is also present in an extra-operonic location several genes upstream of trpR.
The volatility of miRNA genes is further indicated by members of the miR-2/miR-13 K box subfamily [ 47 ] . Seven members were previously reported that are scattered in four genomic locations on three different chromosome arms, including a cluster of three mir-2 genes on 2L and a cluster of two mir-13 genes on 3R; we also identified an additional paralog of mir-2 ( mir-2c ) that is located in the mir-13 cluster.
Yet another paralog is encoded by gene PA3165 and carries out aromatic amino-acid biosynthesis in the cytoplasm.
The possible functional significance of this paralog as serine deaminase has been discussed elsewhere [ 30].