The Evolving Telomeres

• Main Author: Kurt Runge (auth)
• Other Authors: Arthur J. Lustig (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); Arabidopsis; TERL proteins; IncRNA; Candida Saccharomyces; evolution; retrotransposons; Telomere; paralog; Vertebrates; t-loops; Model; TRF proteins
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What controls the different rates of evolution to give rise to conserved and divergent proteins and RNAs? How many trials until evolution can adapt to physiological changes? Every organism has arisen through multiple molecular changes, and the mechanisms that are employed (mutagenesis, recombination...