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Nature 449, 10-11 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449010b; Published online 5 September 2007
Crashing DNA's ultraconservative party
Erika Check
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Abstract
Genetic sequences preserved through evolutionary selection might not be functional.
A colony of mice whose very existence defies logic could rewrite our understanding of human evolution, health and disease, researchers say.The laboratory mice lack stretches of DNA that scientists believed were essential for survival.
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