Ψ KRT76 - Loxodonta africana

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GlossID Species Gene Loss Mechanism Loss Type Lineage Specific Evidence Accession Nr.
GL_NHK4CY Loxodonta africana Other Full No Genomic & Synteny maps

Statements

Type Excerpt DOI
Methodology & Validation "We first identified α-keratin gene repertoires in the cow (Bos taurus) (coverage 7×,Btau_4.6.1) [...] taking all the known α-keratin gene sequences of human as queries using BLASTN and TBLASTN algorithm. [...] [Using the putative α-keratin cow genes as query,] the orthologous α-keratin genes were also scanned from the genome of [marine mammals'] terrestrial relatives, such as [...] African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana, coverage 7×, Loxafr3.0, NCBI)." 10.1186/s12983-017-0225-x

Curator Observations

The authors named the keratins according to the human nomenclature. The authors describe this as a "pseudogene", and no further explanation or sequence information is provided. As such, the gene loss mechanism is inconclusive.