Junk DNA: goodbye! (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 02:02 (3784 days ago) @ David Turell

Another paper finding function in repeated segments:-“We've come to understand that not all repeat sequences are junk DNA,” said Pawel Michalak, an associate professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. “These repetitive sequences are increasingly being recognized as agents of adaptive change. We discovered a larger than expected amount of genetic variation in these repeating sequences between the fly populations and saw that the variation resulted in potentially functional differences in important biological processes, such as stress resistance and mating.”-http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=143443&CultureCode=en