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Decay of the CTCF paralog BORIS in neognathous birds
Katja Palitzsch, Thomas Wiehe, Peter Heger
The paper shows that BORIS is present in birds but frequently degraded in neognathous birds, with independent decay events affecting the coding sequence and linked to evolutionary changes.
DOI 10.1101/2025.02.12.637905