Evolution under canalization and the dual roles of microRNAs—A hypothesis

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Figure 4.

Nucleotide divergence in miRNA target sequences between human and mouse. The distributions of the divergence (proportion of base-pair changes) are given for the core (8 mer) and the minimal miRNA sequence (18 mer) separately. Each sequence is counted as a site. For both types of sequences, random sites of the same length are given for comparison. In total, 447 sites from 349 genes were analyzed.

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  1. Genome Res. 19: 734-743

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