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Our previous studies on animal models have shown that intercalated duct cells in adult rat submandibular glands are the common progenitor for both the acinar and granular duct cells [ 27 36 ] . A recent study in human breast has revealed that CK5-positive cells are capable of giving rise to both glandular and ME cell lineages [ 21 ] . In both cases the intermediate cells showed an unusual immunostaining pattern for several proteins [ 21 36 ] .
In addition, an L1-TD could be the progenitor of subsequent L1-TDs, giving rise to composite transduction events.
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.
Furthermore, in order to have been transcribed and transposed to give rise to progeny elements, the progenitor L1 must in principle be long enough to include the internal promoter in the 5' UTR.
Lateral transfers of genes into eukaryotic nuclear DNA from the alpha-proteobacterial progenitor of mitochondria and into plant nuclear DNA from the cyanobacterial progenitor of chloroplasts are well documented.