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In addition, we found that this CORE-SINE family of retroposons is likely to still be active in American and Australian marsupial genomes and that several highly conserved exonic, intronic and intergenic sequences in the human genome originated from the exaptation of CORE-SINE retroposons.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
Massive redeployment, exaptation, and the functional integration of cognitive operations.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Others consider religious beliefs to be an exaptation - a trait that may have begun as an accidental byproduct - but became useful in its own right, she said.— Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
This process, known as exaptation, is where a trait or behavior that was adapted for one function is later co-opted and used for something entirely different (such as bird feathers adapted for use in thermoregulation and only later being useful for flight).— Brain Blogger
NAIP have previously been shown to employ endogenous retroviral long terminal repeats as promoters, exaptation of— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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