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Fig S2. Half of orangutan UTP14C has been deleted without impacting the function of its host gene ALG11. from Lineage-independent retrotransposition of UTP14 associated with male fertility has occurred multiple times throughout mammalian evolution
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posted on 2017-12-11, 06:30 authored by Jan RohozinskiAlignment of the human UTP14A reference sequence with the orangutan genome revealed that about 1.2 kilo-bases of UTP14C coding sequence has been deleted from the genome leaving only the terminal 1.1 kilo-bases of original UTP14C sequence. The alignment with the remaining sequence is indicated by the blue arrow.