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      Selfish genes, the phenotype paradigm and genome evolution.

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          Natural selection operating within genomes will inevitably result in the appearance of DNAs with no phenotypic expression whose only 'function' is survival within genomes. Prokaryotic transposable elements and eukaryotic middle-repetitive sequences can be seen as such DNA's and thus no phenotypic or evolutionary function need be assigned to them.

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          Nature
          Nature
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          0028-0836
          0028-0836
          Apr 17 1980
          : 284
          : 5757
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          10.1038/284601a0
          6245369
          065ebb66-9a60-43a7-a29b-74ade7a1d2ec
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